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Alex Kirk

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   ## 󠀁[Competitive Reproduction](https://alex.kirk.at/2005/10/09/competitive-reproduction/)󠁿
   
 * We’ve seen it serveral times in history. Company A launches a new, innovative
   product and company B takes it, copies it and wins the competition. Not that 
   we have come so far in just such a short time of AJAX apps but there are quite
   a few examples: RSS readers: Bloglines (acquired by AskJeeves), Rojo,…
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   ## 󠀁[Office Web Apps are just Proof-of-Concepts](https://alex.kirk.at/2005/10/08/office-web-apps-are-just-proof-of-concepts/)󠁿
   
 * AJAX applications are far from replacing desktop office apps. So is Flash by 
   the way. Several projects are trying to prove the opposite. I still think that
   it will not happen. The current development is only a rise of quite sophisticated
   JavaScript applications. We had such applications before but now it’s “in” or
   rather acceptable…

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