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Dominant design :By
definition, the design that wins the allegiance of the majority of the
marketplace. It’s a satisficer.
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When a new product comes to
market, the characteristics of innovation are molded by forces of
competition, invention and customer use until they crystallize into a product
with a certain standard form, set of features and technical capability.
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Typewriter
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Following the success of the
Sholes-Glidden-Remington machine, Remington #1, By #5 you could see what you
were actually typing.
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Caligraph : two separate
keyboards for upper and lower case.
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By 1909 there were 89
manufacturers. Then Remington, Underwood, Royal and LC Smith (later to become
Smith Corona) won.
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Many new models of
typewriters were invented, but few of them proved to be of any enduring
worth, and most were discarded.
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Electric typewriters have
been in extensive use since 1925,
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