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Originally Posted by
tomato coupe
The number of parts is irrelevant. There are many examples of industry innovators that are no longer on the cutting edge of product development. It's pretty common for competitors to adopt those innovations and improve upon them, and then add innovations of their own.
Hypothetically. The question is, has that happened?
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