When it comes to providing mobile infrastructure services for games, Amazon has ruled. But Google has been challenging Amazon in its race to be all things to mobile game companies. Gamers may not care about this behind-the-scenes competition between tech giants, but they will notice if their games get better.
These infrastructure providers actually matter in enabling games to become more social and more complex, because the games are tapping computing resources in the cloud, or web-connected data centers, rather than just using the computing resources of the mobile device.
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