war on competition is costly

[Accardo]

It's been more than a decade since Google and Microsoft turnedout to be rivals over market dominance; Chrome vs Explorer, Google search vs Bing, Google cloud vs Azure, Microsoft 365 vs Google Workspace, Windows vs Chrome Os, the both companies topped Apple in market cap, but war and competition made them lose focus to Apple, in 2013, when they were both surpassed by Apple with $500 billion, while Google and Microsoft combined had $467 billion. It remained that way, unless for 2019 for a short time, not until this January when Google for the first time surpassed Apple with $3.98 trillion while apple market cap is $3.76 trillion, which growth was drown to the AI race, giving google a much better dominance in the market.

This example explains the huge negative impact of competition or turning competition into rivalry or war, it eliminates focus and creates enemity in the mind, which is the creator of new ideas and knowledge, when in business build a strong edge on focus, stay active in giving the best, and abandon competition, it distracts the goals you've set and brings down the value the company once created, for focusing on a war that has no purpose or meaning. Think about this, and share your thoughts or experience.

[Natalim]

This example explains the huge negative impact of competition or turning competition into rivalry or war,

As if we really care about that. That’s their game anyway, some will be on top and some will end up at the bottom.

What matters for us is that because of strong competition, we get better experiences and better services as customers. In that sense, it’s not really a negative thing.

Even for the companies you mentioned, reaching a billion or even trillion market cap is already a win for them. At the end of the day, they’re businesses and the goal is to be profitable. As long as customers are satisfied too, then both sides win.

[Accardo]

What matters for us is that because of strong competition, we get better experiences and better services as customers. In that sense, it’s not really a negative thing.

Even for the companies you mentioned, reaching a billion or even trillion market cap is already a win for them. At the end of the day, they’re businesses and the goal is to be profitable. As long as customers are satisfied too, then both sides win.

The world economy would be a big mess if companies continue to copy what already works instead of working on what hasn't been existing or created by another company. Google and Microsoft dropped in market cap because they never tried to build something new, they copied one another, which wasnt healthy to the market until Apple gave the people a much better way to spend big on a mobile phone which skyrocket their market cap. The context here isn't about succeeding financially, but doing so with new great ideas, which helps the world economy grow.

[btc78]

This example explains the huge negative impact of competition or turning competition into rivalry or war, it eliminates focus and creates enemity in the mind, which is the creator of new ideas and knowledge, when in business build a strong edge on focus, stay active in giving the best, and abandon competition, it distracts the goals you've set and brings down the value the company once created, for focusing on a war that has no purpose or meaning. Think about this, and share your thoughts or experience.

no, competition makes you more motivated. to improve, to innovate, to be better. without threats, there will be complacency. there’s some healthy competition in having rivals or enemies

[Emjay24]

This example explains the huge negative impact of competition or turning competition into rivalry or war, it eliminates focus and creates enemity in the mind, which is the creator of new ideas and knowledge, when in business build a strong edge on focus, stay active in giving the best, and abandon competition, it distracts the goals you've set and brings down the value the company once created, for focusing on a war that has no purpose or meaning. Think about this, and share your thoughts or experience.

On the contrary, competition makes the companies want to create the best products to satisfy the customers the more and it makes each company value its clients base more for fear of them being won over by competitors. Innovation was rapid instead of being complacent with their products and services.

It made each company want to match or outperform the other. let's see a few of their products that actually competes
Chrome vs edge
google docs vs word online
Google meet vs Microsoft teams
these competitions gave rise to better user interfaces, increased features, better performance and even fewer bugs.

It also made the two companies reduce the price of enterprise software and even offered free version to get more people hooked to it. Competition is good, it gives users more choices and as such makes companies committed to providing better experience for its users.

I would say the competition served as a motivation to Microsoft and google to get better, get innovative and upgrade their products and services at a faster rate. It had more positives for them than negative.

[Fortify]

This example explains the huge negative impact of competition or turning competition into rivalry or war, it eliminates focus and creates enemity in the mind, which is the creator of new ideas and knowledge, when in business build a strong edge on focus, stay active in giving the best, and abandon competition, it distracts the goals you've set and brings down the value the company once created, for focusing on a war that has no purpose or meaning. Think about this, and share your thoughts or experience.

There's equally no point looking at dumb valuations of companies based on fickle markets. Apple was a great innovator and still has a reasonable lead in that area, but has seen it's market share be steadily knocked down by android phones and Chinese manufacturers. The moral should be, take notice of what your competitors are doing and pat attention, but don't just seek to copy ideas - you must really innovate and also maintain your core products which got you into a great position in the first place. I'd disagree with calling it a war, it's just healthy competition between obvious rivals with new entrants encouraging efficiency.

[Accardo]

Apple was a great innovator and still has a reasonable lead in that area, but has seen it's market share be steadily knocked down by android phones and Chinese manufacturers. The moral should be, take notice of what your competitors are doing and pat attention, but don't just seek to copy ideas - you must really innovate and also maintain your core products which got you into a great position in the first place. I'd disagree with calling it a war, it's just healthy competition between obvious rivals with new entrants encouraging efficiency.

In the tech world it's termed a continuous war, however, Chinese manufacturers despite dropping down the market share of Apple, kills their entire economy, China's production revolves around mimicking whatever is produced in the USA, which is not giving them a better future in the financial market, the future they seek is like the life the US is living right now for steadily coming up with fresh ideas. Everyone thinks China would dominate the world market except China. The fact they can't come up with new product that hasn't been worked on, affects their economical value on the long run.

[ecnalubma]

Great point about enemity in the mind distracting from goals. We see this often in the forum where projects spend more on marketing wars and attacking other coins than actually developing their codebase. Apple's success for that decade was largely due to them defining their own category rather than trying to build a better Windows. It’s a good lesson for investors look for the teams that are heads-down building unique value, not the ones obsessed with their rival's market cap.

[Fiatless]

Competition is not all about profit. It is a fight to maintain market share, relevance and a fight for survival. Any company that fails to create new products to outsmart its competitors will become obsolete. It's not all about enmity; it is a fierce battle to gain customer loyalty. Many good companies have become they fail to realise that if you don't give your clients what others offer, you will lose them