In this article, we add research on technical integration and dependency to the theories of platformization. Our research seeks to understand how platforms have been able to technically integrate themselves into the fabric of the mobile ecosystem, transforming the economic dynamics that allow these largely enclosed entities to compete. We therefore want to consider platforms as service assemblages to account for the material ways in which they have decomposed and recomposed themselves for developers, enabling them to shift the economic dynamics of competition and monopolization in their favor. This article will argue that this shift in the formation of platform monopolies is being brought about by the decentralization of these services, leading to an overall technical integration of the largest digital platform such as Facebook and Google into the source code of almost all apps. We present new digital methodologies to surface these relations and material conditions of platforms. These methodologies offer us a whole new toolkit to investigate how decentralized services depend on each other and how new power relations are formed.

在本文中，我们将有关技术集成和依存关系的研究添加到平台化理论中。我们的研究旨在了解平台如何在技术上将自身整合到移动生态系统的结构中，从而改变经济动力，使这些高度封闭的实体相互竞争。因此，我们希望将平台视为服务组合，以解决开发人员分解和重组自己的物质方式，从而使开发人员能够将竞争和垄断的经济动力转移到有利于他们的地方。本文将论证，平台垄断形成的这种转变是由这些服务的分散化引起的，导致将最大的数字平台（例如Facebook和Google）整体技术集成到几乎所有应用程序的源代码中。我们提出了新的数字方法，以揭示平台的这些关系和物质条件。这些方法为我们提供了一个全新的工具包，以研究分散服务如何相互依赖以及如何形成新的权力关系。