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Well, to me this is not really surprising since America is leading the way technologically speaking. Computers, the internet, the smartphone, Google, Apple, Mic
by remir 8y ago
Well, to me this is not really surprising since America is leading the way technologically speaking. Computers, the internet, the smartphone, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, etc.
What is a self-driving car, really? Software on wheel. Who's leading the pack in software development? America.
- albertgoeswoof 8y agoFor every one of those companies you mention there are Chinese ones that are arguably bigger and more successful. And I don’t think you can chalk smartphones down to an American invention really.
- Tempest1981 8y agoCan you provide their names? I’m curious if I’ve heard of them.
- Jyaif 8y agoPeople are browsing in browsers created by american companies, compiled with compilers created by american companies, running on Operating Systems by american companies. The easy surface problems (making websites and apps) has indeed started to be tackled by the rest of the world, but the US is clearly the birthplace of all the computing stack. It's not surprising they are the first to tackle self driving cars.
- wcarron 8y agoWhat, like Huawei? I don't think you can call the companies (I'm making assumptions about which ones you're alluding to) more successful when their success is predicated upon corporate espionage and IP theft from the aforementioned American companies.
- remir 8y agoAnd these companies are?
- richardknop 8y agoThese companies are successful inside China but if actual free market competition was allowed in the communist country, they would have hard time competing with US counterparts imho.