Google creates an opportunity to fight against Apple
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34216475
Technology has developed rapidly since the Industrial Revolution, and it has changed our lives in many different ways. The way we see, the way we eat, the way we learn, and the ways we do many other things. Among the many fascinating and useful technology development, Apple has launched Apple Pay which is a tap-to-pay system in the increasing mobile payments market. This revolutionary technology allows people to store their credit card information on their mobile phones as well as other important data to use their fingers rather than their plastic cards, to pay for their purchases. Just pressing their screen softly will let them to buy something they want. How astonishing! The rival Google could not just sit down and watch Apple Pay monopolizing the mobile payments market. Therefore, Google recently has made its mobile payments system called Androids Pay. The new system supports credit and debit cards from most of the providers such as MasterCard and Visa. One problem still remains: Androids Pay will be available only in the United States for a while. Google has been working its best to generate a global system that will unite any type of purchases in anywhere into one touch of screen.
Google and Apple here are two giant components that we have discussed about in the class. They are two giant components who exhibit somewhat negative relationship, an intense rivalry. Nodes connected to these two giant components are users of either Google or Apple, and nodes of Google and nodes of Apple are not connected because Google users stick with Android and Apple users stick with iOS, the unique operating system that Apple owns. Perhaps only a handful among the millions of people use both Google and Apple products. In other words, there is a completed graph of two sets of corporations, say set G and set A, with complete mutual antagonism between set G and set A. Therefore, it is balanced. However, because of those handful people who use both Google and Apple, graph is more likely an “almost completed” graph. Proving that set G and set A demonstrate a negative relationship might be challenging, but knowing that there has been a competitive competition between the two sets tells us that there is a strongly negative relationship between the two sets.