http://srinish.wordpress.com/2006/07/31/winners-take-most-of-it/ The Power to Influence Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:39:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://srinish.wordpress.com/2006/07/31/winners-take-most-of-it/#comment-179 Kathy Fairechild Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:51:50 +0000 https://srinish.wordpress.com/2006/07/31/winners-take-most-of-it/#comment-179 Google is the best search engine Google is the best search engine

]]> http://srinish.wordpress.com/2006/07/31/winners-take-most-of-it/#comment-32 ujwal tickoo Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:09:12 +0000 https://srinish.wordpress.com/2006/07/31/winners-take-most-of-it/#comment-32 "Any player has to get its customers to rally around itself, since it’s net perceived value (NPV?) is the sum total of the value each customer places on it. And, unless the customer feels like a “Winner”, having sided with the ‘perceived winner’".... Reminds of "Information Rules" by Hal Varian and Carl Shapiro. They state that eventually the firm that emerges as the "Winner" is one "perceived" as a winner by customers and others in a Market. Positive network externalities emerge from belief of users that a specific firm will win...Users eventually "make" it win. However did Microsoft Create Winners? Not sure about this. I ruminated a bit on this issue in my post http://www.thebizofcoding.com/2006/07/is_microsoft_corp_competing_wi.html “Any player has to get its customers to rally around itself, since it’s net perceived value (NPV?) is the sum total of the value each customer places on it. And, unless the customer feels like a “Winner”, having sided with the ‘perceived winner’”….
Reminds of “Information Rules” by Hal Varian and Carl Shapiro. They state that eventually the firm that emerges as the “Winner” is one “perceived” as a winner by customers and others in a Market. Positive network externalities emerge from belief of users that a specific firm will win…Users eventually “make” it win.
However did Microsoft Create Winners? Not sure about this. I ruminated a bit on this issue in my post http://www.thebizofcoding.com/2006/07/is_microsoft_corp_competing_wi.html

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