the business of business is business

business is the art of buying a dollar machine for cents < 1$

either as a one time payment

or a part of the  $1 , regularly, until some amount is reached

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the key to new things, is to know that incumbent leaders have no time or incentive

to learn about the new thing that is eating their lunch

until threatened, then they will spend money on it to check 

the box called "I am doing something about it"

this is the niche that online courses on AI are surging into.

Executive education is actually executive-soothing for most

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Any incumbent with a huge following is, by definition, ripe for plucking. 

To break apple's monopoly,  the barrier is network effect. Thanks to Android and Java, there is no shortage of app developers . So all a political entity has to do is mandate open standards for devices, with right-to-repair as the rallying cry, maybe. A monopoly can only form by saying NO to million things - starting with options for users. And that is the crack to slide the thin edge of the wedge into.