Examples
- War of Currents between AC power and Direct current electricity in the late 1800s.
- The videotape format war between Betamax and VHS, when VHS became the de facto video tape standard.
- Microsoft Windows has become the dominant design in PC operating systems.
- David Pogue in a review of the Samsung Z5 MP3 player articulated the Apple/iPod dominant design in the NY Times March 9, 2006. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/technology/circuits/09pogue.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
- Many industry examples are included in Utterback's book Mastering the dynamics of innovation (see references below)
- DC-3 Peter Senge book The fifth discipline on p. 6 cited the DC-3 as a dominant design consisting of variable pitch propeller, retractable landing gear, monocoque, radial air-cooled engine, and wing flaps.
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