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> America ... doesn't hold a monopoly on tech Certainly seems that way.
by dingo_bat 8y ago
> America ... doesn't hold a monopoly on tech
Certainly seems that way.
- notamicroshill 8y agoProprietary anyway, free software seems much more international.
- mattlondon 8y agoPerhaps it only seems that way for household names like apple, Facebook and google. There are a lot of less well known technology giants elsewhere in the world. E.g. ARM from the UK (now owned by Japanese giant SoftBank) has pretty much total domination on the smartphone CPU market (licensing anyway - lots of manufacturing is done by e.g. Samsung of Korea) My mum will have heard of Facebook and Google, but I guarantee that she and probably most other people's mother's have never ever heard of ARM. Just one example - countless others.
- wilsonnb2 8y agoWhat's another example? This one strikes me as unique because ARM just sells their IP. Sure, our mothers probably haven't heard of ARM but that's more like saying they haven't heard of x86. Our mothers have almost definitely heard of Samsung and Apple, both of whom manufacture a large number of ARM chips. There's even a decent chance they've heard of a company like Qualcomm that's not as well known as Apple or Samsung.
- michaelt 8y agoDifferent parts of the industry have very different potential for political power. If you wanted to influence a US presidential election, a 100% monopoly on the printing press would be much more useful than a 100% monopoly on zipper manufacturing. The former is presumably what newspaper opinion writers are worried about.