Apr 05, 2021 12:00:00

What kind of relationship do big techs such as Google and Amazon have in their respective fields?

The days when Amazon sold books and Google was a search service are a thing of the past.

Big Tech (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) is expanding its business in many different ways, and while there are areas where it works together, there are also areas where there are conflicting interests and fierce battles.

The Wall Street Journal, which calls these five parties 'Tech Frenemy of Life,' cleverly expresses the relationship using pentagons.

Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft. Call Them Tech Frenemies for Life. --WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-giants-cooperate-while-competing-frenemies-for-life-11617293819

Big Tech relationships are sometimes friendly and sometimes hostile, but in some cases they are in a frenemy state of being 'rivals and friends.' It's not easy to put this all together, but The Wall Street Journal does it well with pentagons.

For example, in the cloud computing field, Amazon's AWS occupies a large share, and there is a scheme that Google and Microsoft follow. On the other hand, Facebook and Apple haven't done business in this area, especially Apple has a relationship to host some of iCloud's data on both AWS and Google Cloud, so when it comes to this figure That thing. Of the lines connecting each company, the red line represents the hostile relationship, the red line represents the friendly relationship, and the orange line represents the frenemy relationship.

Google is focusing on the cloud space to outperform Amazon and Microsoft by 2023.

Why should Google outperform Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud space by 2023? --GIGAZINE

On the other hand, in the news aggregation field, four parties except Amazon, which has not entered the market, are engaged in a bee battle.

Looking at the areas of social networks and livestreaming, all but the relationships between Apple and Amazon were 'frenemy.' There are competing services, such as Google-affiliated YouTube and Amazon-affiliated Twitch, but they are not just hostile because their apps are profitable from being distributed in each other's app market. And that.

In addition, The Wall Street Journal includes 'Digital Advertising,' 'Video Games,' 'App Market,' 'Enterprise Software Suite,' 'Messages,' 'Notebooks & Tablets,' 'Smart Speakers & Display,' 'Smart Watches & Fitness Trackers,' and 'Smartphones.' Information about is summarized.