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>Comparative descriptions like this are a great way to describe products. It's too bad most companies publish new products with a presumption the reader is closely familiar with the existing products/business to make their own comparison.

I tend to read this behavior oppositely: they're not assuming you have the knowledge, they're hoping you don't, and obscuring the similarity to existing products that they might seem inferior to when framed as competitors for the same use case.

"Hey, UberHOP is just Lyft Lines + hotspots with an extra requirement that they hit more stops off my route..."




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