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by jonathanstrange 1133 days ago
So you're saying that Google, Microsoft, etc., do have moat that smaller companies don't have. Otherwise, I see no reason why these companies couldn't continue to compete with large corporations. For example, if the makers of Papyrus Author successfully integrate AI into their writing application, they would continue to have the same competitive advantage over Microsoft Word they had before - unless Microsoft's AI is more powerful and much better.

I don't know, I consider it possible that at least in the beginning large corporations have moat, just wanted to point out that this is what people are wondering / don't really know at the moment.

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I didn't really understand your point. But bringing up Papyrus Author is a great example I think of what I was saying. I'm not previously familiar with Papyrus Author, and I don't know how popular they are, but it's clear they are very much targeting creative writing authors specifically. Their hope is clearly that they can provide enough value to this group so that their price is worth it over a more generic word processor.