If you remove Facebook from that list you will find the US is leading in cloud, OS and hardware providers. If you look closer things get more complicated. Samsu

If you remove Facebook from that list you will find the US is leading in cloud, OS and hardware providers. If you look closer things get more complicated. Samsung and Foxconn? Arm? If you look at the history thing get more complicated too. Oracle swallowed Sun and got its hands on OpenOffice (originally a German, commercial product) and MySQL (originally a Swedish product). Those American companies are a lot more international then you think. Also, if you look at Spotify, Elasticsearch and so on you will find a lot of European companies. If you look at Linux and Python you will find a lot European programmers. If you look at Ruby you will find a lot of Japanese programmers. Here in Europe (Germany in my case) software looks more local too. We use DATEV and SAP, European products that are huge here. The US has a foot hold in a couple of markets and that is right because there is such a thing as a natural monopoly or duopoly. We can’t deal with an infinite amount operating systems and hardware platforms so now we have Windows and Unix (the Macintosh’s utility for a lot of us programmers is that it is a Unix). What you should consider is ANDROID. The hardware it mainly runs on is ARM (British), the Linux Kernel was produced by a Finish guy and by a lot of international people, including Canadians, Mexicans, Brazilians, Europeans, Japanese and so on. If you look at the Google IO you should notice Sundar Pichai is an Indian (well, naturalized American) and he isn’t the only one at Google. To just hijack all the work done by people who aren’t American and rubber stamping something as American because the company behind it was incorporated there does a big disservice to the complexity of modern technology.