{"id":1064,"date":"2017-02-26T23:26:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T23:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2017-02-26T23:26:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T23:26:24","slug":"the-real-difference-between-google-and-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/2017\/02\/26\/the-real-difference-between-google-and-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real difference between Google and Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both Apple and Google are powerful and successful companies driving today\u2019s cutting edge innovation and technology. The below visualization talks about the patents obtained in both these companies and how it translates into their organization structure.<\/p>\n

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Right: Apple Left: Google<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Argument<\/em><\/strong>: Apple has a more centralized organization structure, originating from it\u2019s well known design studio. Google, however has a stream of distributed open source approach to their new products.<\/p>\n

In order to prove this difference in organization structures, a data visualization company, Periscopic charted the last 10 years of patents filed at Apple and Google as a complex network of connections.<\/p>\n

Understanding the visualization<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Each blob is a patent inventor. As many patents can have multiple inventors , each line is a link between the inventor and the co-inventor. While Apple\u2019s viz looks like multiple blobs scattered across, Googles\u2019 viz looks more like a monotonous single blob which is evenly distributed.<\/p>\n

According to the patent data, in the last 10 years:<\/p>\n