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Where by "the world" we of course mean "mainland China" Edit: the title has been changed; it used to read "WeChat is taking over the world" or something

by gok 8y ago

rakoo 8y ago
As someone not from the US, I can assure you the same mindset does appear on American websites about the US.
- DeonPenny 8y ago
  I thought american tech companies were used in most places outside of the US. From what seen facebook, google, amazon, etc are fairly global reaching at this point.
  - adventured 8y ago
    The globalized US tech companies / services / products. YouTube, Netflix, Wikipedia, Uber, Google search, iOS & iPhone / watch / iPad, Mac, Android, Windows, Microsoft Office/365, Facebook core, FB Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Gmail & G services, Google Maps, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail / Outlook.com, Dropbox, Reddit, Imgur, Twitter, LinkedIn, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Adobe / Photoshop, iTunes / Apple Music, Wordpress, Github, Stack Exchange, Steam, Airbnb, Priceline / Booking, Amazon.com, eBay, PayPal, AWS, Oracle, Salesforce, Akamai, Cloudflare, VMWare, Lets Encrypt, GoDaddy, Craigslist, Symantec, Red Hat, Activision, Electronic Arts, Autodesk, IBM, Intel, AMD, nVidia, Cisco, Broadcom, Qualcomm, Dell / EMC, HP, Western Digital, Lam Research, Applied Materials, Micron, Texas Instruments, Analog Devices There are a bunch more that one could argue for, however that covers the bulk of them.
  - Markoff 8y ago
    Reddit it's pretty much unknown in Europe I'd you check statistics Amazon it's also the last option i would be looking at when shopping for something online in Europe
    - varjag 8y ago
      Right, first place would be ebay.de, .fr, .it, .co.uk..
      - Markoff 8y ago
        that's even less likely than amazon
  - rakoo 8y ago
    I'm specifically talking about the mindset of equating "it's happening in all America" to "it's happening to the whole world", and that's not only in tech.
- varjag 8y ago
  You can't be serious, most of the world uses American websites in all kinds of market sectors.
- throwaway3023 8y ago
  Yup. Lists like, "The 100 Best Songs of All Time" = 100 American songs.
  - sonnyblarney 8y ago
    There's nothing wrong with that though, those kinds of statements are implied to be contextual. If it's an American publication, it's fair. The OP comment is not unreasonable - American's are fairly nationally centric by default ... but they generally don't say 'the world' when they mean just America.
  - Markoff 8y ago
    i love "The best budget phones you can buy" * * of course only in US, where you are limited by nonstandard LTE bands excluding 90% of phones available elsewhere
Markoff 8y ago
is there any other China? please don't promote CCP agenda by using this disgusting term

Where by "the world" we of course mean "mainland China" Edit: the title has been changed; it used to read "WeChat is taking over the world" or something

by gok 8y ago

Where by "the world" we of course mean "mainland China" Edit: the title has been changed; it used to read "WeChat is taking over the world" or something

rakoo 8y ago

As someone not from the US, I can assure you the same mindset does appear on American websites about the US.

DeonPenny 8y ago
I thought american tech companies were used in most places outside of the US. From what seen facebook, google, amazon, etc are fairly global reaching at this point.
- adventured 8y ago
  The globalized US tech companies / services / products. YouTube, Netflix, Wikipedia, Uber, Google search, iOS & iPhone / watch / iPad, Mac, Android, Windows, Microsoft Office/365, Facebook core, FB Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Gmail & G services, Google Maps, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail / Outlook.com, Dropbox, Reddit, Imgur, Twitter, LinkedIn, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Adobe / Photoshop, iTunes / Apple Music, Wordpress, Github, Stack Exchange, Steam, Airbnb, Priceline / Booking, Amazon.com, eBay, PayPal, AWS, Oracle, Salesforce, Akamai, Cloudflare, VMWare, Lets Encrypt, GoDaddy, Craigslist, Symantec, Red Hat, Activision, Electronic Arts, Autodesk, IBM, Intel, AMD, nVidia, Cisco, Broadcom, Qualcomm, Dell / EMC, HP, Western Digital, Lam Research, Applied Materials, Micron, Texas Instruments, Analog Devices There are a bunch more that one could argue for, however that covers the bulk of them.
- Markoff 8y ago
  Reddit it's pretty much unknown in Europe I'd you check statistics Amazon it's also the last option i would be looking at when shopping for something online in Europe
  - varjag 8y ago
    Right, first place would be ebay.de, .fr, .it, .co.uk..
    - Markoff 8y ago
      that's even less likely than amazon
- rakoo 8y ago
  I'm specifically talking about the mindset of equating "it's happening in all America" to "it's happening to the whole world", and that's not only in tech.
varjag 8y ago
You can't be serious, most of the world uses American websites in all kinds of market sectors.
throwaway3023 8y ago
Yup. Lists like, "The 100 Best Songs of All Time" = 100 American songs.
- sonnyblarney 8y ago
  There's nothing wrong with that though, those kinds of statements are implied to be contextual. If it's an American publication, it's fair. The OP comment is not unreasonable - American's are fairly nationally centric by default ... but they generally don't say 'the world' when they mean just America.
- Markoff 8y ago
  i love "The best budget phones you can buy" * * of course only in US, where you are limited by nonstandard LTE bands excluding 90% of phones available elsewhere

Markoff 8y ago

is there any other China? please don't promote CCP agenda by using this disgusting term