Brands Can’t Win Their Own Category Anymore. The Smart Ones Quit Trying [Forbes]
Rivian Automotive, Inc. - Class A (RIVN)
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Source: Forbes
Feature parity arrives within a year. Price parity follows close behind. Whatever took three years of R&D to claim a decade ago, rivals copy in a quarter today. The product moat is a puddle. So the smartest brands of 2026 have stopped trying to win their own categories. They have stopped benchmarking against the competitor down the street. They are doing something more interesting. They are raiding other categories for ideas and importing what they find. Four examples tell the story. Meta Borrowed From Fashion Meta could not sell smart glasses as Meta. Nobody wanted a tech company on their face. Google Glass proved that a decade ago. So Meta did what most tech companies refuse to do. It stopped competing as a tech brand. It partnered with EssilorLuxottica, took a stake in the company, and put the Ray-Ban and Oakley names on the frames . Seven million pairs found customers in 2025. Triple the prior year. Meta did not invent a category. Meta borrowed nearly a century of Ray-Ban
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