Gorilla warfare

[James A. Landau]

Has anyone run across the phrase "tipping point".  I don't recall having
heard it before, then in the past week I saw it twice on-line.

The context was marketing of software and the sense was something like "this
product has now reached a sufficiently large market share that everybody will
start buying it so as to be compatible with the rest of the world".

The closest synonym that I can think of is, of all things, "critical mass".

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           - Jim Landau