Exploit opportunistic opportunities
74 Platform injection
In addition to traditional scaling strategies, there are also opportunistic strategies that try to leverage existing platforms and take advantage of their openness. With platform injection, a platform integrates itself into another platform. This strategy exploits the other platform’s openness, similar to a Trojan horse. In contrast to the piggyback strategy, the integration is not necessarily a mutually symbiotic win–win and can be seen as an unfriendly attack. The entrant might compete with the value capturing of the inhabited platform.39
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