Photo storage and sharing. Every moment kept, few ever looked at.
It is a product you buy.
It exists to relieve Childhood passes; someone must keep it. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without Smartphones and internet, Cloud computing and data centres and Cybersecurity. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
5 organisations in this map sell it, 4 of them publicly listed.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionPhoto storage and sharing
- FrictionChildhood passes; someone must keep it
- Life phaseParenthood
- Rooted inBelonging
- Rooted inMortality
Relieves
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple | $3.5T | public · AAPL | iPhone, iCloud Photos, Screen Time |
| Microsoft | $3.5T | public · MSFT | LinkedIn, Teams, Xbox |
| Alphabet | $2.5T | public · GOOGL | Google Photos, Family Link, Google Calendar |
| Amazon | $2.3T | public · AMZN | Amazon.com, Prime, Subscribe & Save |
| Shutterfly (Lifetouch) | private | school portraits, photo books |