Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by tacostakohashi 972 days ago
Just dividing up the market between two (or a few more) pretty much identical products/offerings is how many mature products end up. It happens because because for, say, two competitors in a market, the marginal return on investment for trying to capture more market drops off, and if they all try to be the only provider... there's a chance the other one will win that game so it's easiest and less risky to just divide up the market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium

It happens a lot...

CVS / Walgreens

Home Depot / Loews

...