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Why did emile berliner's gramophone win the format war against thomas edison's phonograph?

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the reason is Because the gramophone used discs instead of foil cylinders.
This allows Gramophone to anaged to press thousands of copies from a sole matrix,. This ability makes Gramophone managed to perform 25 times more effieicnt than the phonograph which makes the phonograph starte to lose its popularity.
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