Gaming Service: Service and Comfort Zone

gaming service: Facebook is edging into Amazon's e-commerce sphere by enabling users to make purchases within Instagram, according to The Japan Times. Google, which has already challenged Amazon and Microsoft in cloud computing, is launching an online game service that could undercut the lucrative game-console businesses of 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. Apple is taking on Netflix by launching a subscription TV service with its own original shows. This is an awful lot of breadth really quickly for a company that hasn't been known for being great at breadth, Enderle said. Before, when the company's product suite grew too varied, what Steve Jobs did with Apple was, he made the company focus, Enderle said. This is much more diversity than Apple's ever had. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.