Comment by nosianu

That will work until there has been a lot of infrastructure created to work with a particular player, and 3rd party software.

See the Microsoft ecosystem as an example. Nothing they do could not be replicated, but the network effects they achieved are strong. Too much glue, and 3rd party systems, and also training, and what users are used to, and what workers you could hire are used to, now all point to the MS ecosystem.

In this early mass-AI-use phase you still can easily switch vendors, sure. Just like in the 1980s you could still choose some other OS or office suite (like Star Office - the basis for OpenOffice, Lotus, WordStar, WordPerfect) without paying that kind of ecosystem cost, because it did not exist yet.

Today too much infrastructure and software relies on the systems from one particular company to change easily, even if the competition were able to provide a better piece of software in one area.