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They're also very very rarely the first mover.

Apple comes in and innovates against something that existed but was user hostile.

It actually did happen to Apple over a long enough horizon, they cornered the paid digital music market by perfecting it, and upended it, and didn't innovate/upend again, and along came Spotify to upend it for them.



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