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|| ''Barbie'' || ''Bratz'' || Dolls for girls. || Barbie was meant to be a revolutionary new way for little girls to play with dolls. Much later, Bratz took the "glamourous" lifestyle and ramped it [[Up to Eleven|up to 11]]. || Bratz took the title from Barbie rather resoundingly in terms of sales. Then a copyright lawsuit almost brought Bratz to an end because Bratz's creator was a former Mattel employee. ||
 
|| ''Coca-Cola'' || ''Pepsi'' || Cola-flavored, carbonated soft drinks created around the same time. || Coca-Cola has typically had more success with a "traditional" audience. Pepsi usually is more successful with younger audiences. || From [[The Other Wiki]]... According to Beverage Digest's 2008 report on carbonated soft drinks, PepsiCo's U.S. market share is 30.8 percent, while The Coca-Cola Company's is 42.7 percent. Coke lost ground to Pepsi in the late 1960s, but the [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|New Coke fiasco]] of 1985 and subsequent reintroduction of the original formula catapulted Coke back to the #1 spot, which it holds to this day. ||
 
|| ''I'm A'' Mac || ''And I'm A'' Windows PC. Also, GNU/Linux || Personal computers designed, developed, and marketed to users. Apple was the solution for the novice computer hobbyist that became Mac; IBM wanted a more business-friendly version whose OS became Windows. || Apple has traditionally been the home of designers; when Apple bought [[Next]], it amalgamated a UNIX core. Microsoft's MS-DOS and Windows were designed for use in businesses, and later, in homes. GNU/Linux (originally just GNU) was developed as a free (as in freedom, not necessarily as in price) replacement for the most widely used (at the time) OS in academia and businesses--UNIX. It later developed as the free OS par excellence with POSIX compatibility a major design feature. || Technically ongoing, but Windows still has upwards to 90% market share between all versions, while the Mac usually hovers around the 7% mark. GNU/Linux accounts for 1-2% of the desktops, but most of the servers and supercomputers||
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|| Zip Drive || LS-120 Superdrive; Sony HiFD || Floppy drive replacements, with similar-sized disks, but vastly greater capacity. || The LS-120 and HiFD were compatible with 3.5" floppies, but the Zip Drive wasn't. Initially the Zip Drive had 100MB of storage, the LS-120 had (surprise) 120MB, and the HiFD had 150MB. Greater-sized versions of all of these would subsequently be released. || In truth, none of them; the CD-RW (and, subsequently, USB sticks) took over the market for these drives. Out of the three however, Zip Drive was the only one that could truly claim to be a success. LS-120 never really caught on, and HiFD was an embarrassing failure, after it turned out to have an irreparably flawed design.
 
|| Filet-O-Fish || Hulaburger || [[McDonaldsMcDonald's]] newest meal that was originally aim to the American Catholic demographic who didn't eat red meat on Friday's, and would instead eat at Big Boy restaurants, which served a fish sandwich. || The former was a battered fish patty in a bun with half a slice of processed cheese and tartar sauce made by food inventor Lou Groen, the latter was a sandwich with a pineapple slice on a bun with two pieces of cheese by [[McDonaldsMcDonald's]] owner Ray Kroc. Interestingly, the latter was only made by Mr. Kroc as he [[It Will Never Catch On|believe the Filet-O-Fish was a stupid idea]] and his Hulaburger was much better. || Unfortunately for Mr. Kroc, he was wrong as the Filet-O-Fish was far more popular than his Hulaburger. To add insult to injury, not only did the Filet-O-Fish was popular to Catholics, but it was also popular with Muslims and non-red meat eaters as well. Today, Filet-O-Fish is still [[McDonaldsMcDonald's]] most popular meal while the Hulaburger was forgotten like the other [[McDonaldsMcDonald's]] meals that failed .
 
|| [[Steam]] || Direct2Drive, Impulse, Origin (formerly EA Store), Games for Windows Live marketplace, many others. || Internet-based game delivery and content management systems. || Steam was the brainchild of Valve, Direct2Drive was created by IGN, Impulse was founded by Stardock, Origin is run by EA, and Games for Windows Live marketplace, unsurprisingly, is run by [[Microsoft]]. || Steam benefited from having a [[Killer App]] in the form of ''[[Half-Life 2 (Video Game)|Half-Life 2]]'', and currently holds a commanding lead. Direct2Drive and Impulse squabble over who is in a decent second place (due to conflicting reports on their own share), and the other services scrap it out over the remaining marketshare. While the Games for Windows Live marketplace ''was'' predicted to be the Next Big Thing, it ended up being loathed by many gamers, partly for technical issues and being not nearly as well-designed or seamless as Steam, and it has been losing considerable support. Recently EA has been aggressively marketing its new Origin service, to the point of ceasing Steam distribution; early response from gamers has been lackluster, but its [[Killer App]] ''[[Mass Effect]] 3'' could make it successful.
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|| ''Oxo'' || ''Bovril'' || Highly concentrated meat stock that could be made into soup. || Oxo was created by German chemist Baron Justus von Liebig, who created the Meat extract method in 1840 and began production in 1866. Bovril was made by Scotsman John Lawson Johnston as resqusted by the French to feed their people during their war with Prussia in 1870. || Oxo is still available in Britain and South Africa which the former is where the company that owns the brand in located. Bovril is more popular and recognizable around the world.||
 
|| ''Big Boy (sandwich)'' || ''Big Mac'' || Very similar specialty hamburgers: two beef patties on a three-layer bun, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, and "special sauce" (tartar on the ''Big Boy'', Thousand Island on the ''Big Mac''). || The ''Big Boy'' was created in 1936 by Big Boy restaurant founder Bob Wian. The ''Big Mac'' was created in 1967 by [[McDonaldsMcDonald's]] franchisee Jim Delligatti, and made standard in all [[McDonaldsMcDonald's]] restaurants by 1968. || The ''Big Mac''. Both hamburgers ultimately depended on the success of their respective restaurants. While the ''Big Mac'' is the signature sandwich of the world's largest fast food company, the ''Big Boy'' doesn't enjoy anywhere near the success. ||
 
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