Apple91裸聊视频檚 latest move into streaming video illustrates an escalating trend: Tech91裸聊视频檚 biggest companies, faced with limits to their growth, are encroaching on each other91裸聊视频檚 turf.
Apple is taking on Netflix. Facebook is edging into Amazon91裸聊视频檚 sphere with its e-commerce plans. Google, which has already challenged Amazon and Microsoft in cloud computing, is launching an online game service that could undercut the lucrative game-console business at Microsoft and Sony.
Apple, which is also launching a gaming service and introducing its own credit card , may be veering the most outside its comfort zone, technology industry analyst Rob Enderle said.
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Before, when the company91裸聊视频檚 product suite grew too varied, 91裸聊视频渨hat Steve Jobs did with Apple was, he made the company focus,91裸聊视频� Enderle said.
These are different times, however, and Apple may have decided that it doesn91裸聊视频檛 have much choice amid declining sales of its premier product, the iPhone.
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Tech companies, of course, have explored new markets and fought turf battles over them for years.
Facebook and Google have long scrapped over digital ads. Google and Amazon are battling it out over voice assistants in the home. Google and Microsoft have competing search engines. And Apple and Google have waged an epic smartphone battle for roughly a decade.
But longtime tech industry analyst Tim Bajarin sees new urgency in the latest push into streaming services and other businesses that bring in continuous flows of money 91裸聊视频� not just when consumers make big investments in new phones or other hardware.
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Enderle said Apple is still in the 91裸聊视频渉oneymoon phase91裸聊视频� after a Monday announcement at its Cupertino, California, headquarters. Apple brought out new A-list entertainment partners such as Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg and video game partners such as the creators of 91裸聊视频淪imCity91裸聊视频� and the 91裸聊视频淔inal Fantasy91裸聊视频� series. What happens next may be harder for the company to manage.
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Matt O91裸聊视频橞rien, The Associated Press
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