Standardization as Platform

When proprietary technology becomes an open standard, competition shifts from 'who owns the technology' to 'who controls the ecosystem gateway.' The standard itself becomes the new competitive moat, not the technology underlying it.

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Related principles

• ↺ Counters
  Platform Internalization
• ↺ Counters
  Technology Stack Integration
• → Links
  Capability Moat Migration
• → Links
  Backward Compatibility as Competitive Moat
• → Links
  Platform Paradigm Shift
• → Links
  Platform Redefinition of Category Boundaries
• → Links
  Trademark Registration as Strategic Signaling