exclusivity

"The term 'exclusivity' is nowhere to be found at Skoda."

BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

Frank is looking for what we call exclusivity here, and he will want to make sure that Donaldo is permanently out of the picture.

Little Girl Blue Cray, David 2002

Said differently, exclusivity is a good way for carriers to NOT differentiate their networks and reduce capex.

An iPhone Isn’t An Unalienable Right 2009

Bottom line is, exclusivity is anti-competitive, because it allows the carriers to avoid head to head competition on the product that consumers pay for each month — the mobile service.

Sen. Kerry Wants Wants His iPhone Unlocked 2009

Not that exclusivity is necessarily bad - like most other things it can be good or bad depending on the context. tricstmr says:

Matthew Yglesias » US Against Them: Ethnocentic Foundations of American Opinion 2010

While exclusivity is a crux of the official definition, it doesn't really mean much either.

The New York Cork Report: 2008

A sense of exclusivity is another value proposition: I am part of the club, you are not.

Bits Debate: Is Copy Protection Needed or Futile? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

People who mostly stay put get to have experiences once available only to frequent travelers, and this loss of exclusivity is one reason why frequent travelers are the ones who complain.

In Praise of Chain Stores 2006

Where we're talking about cultic artefacts, where the right to exclusivity is founded, I would argue, on a legitimate religious concern, I think this has to be respected.

Archive 2006-09-01 Hal Duncan 2006

Where we're talking about cultic artefacts, where the right to exclusivity is founded, I would argue, on a legitimate religious concern, I think this has to be respected.

More on Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006