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Talking about hardware. Though even based on the software products mentioned here, why Israel a startup nation? There are other countries other than USA, that h
by onyva 7y ago
Talking about hardware. Though even based on the software products mentioned here, why Israel a startup nation? There are other countries other than USA, that had success with more products and far less hype.
Again, from usability and design perspective, internal market, Israel’s infrastructure is very backward. Universities, banks, governments ... everything was developed by one company, a contractor of Microsoft Israel called Matrix, and it looks as bad as it sounds.
- King-Aaron 7y agoIt feels like you just have a bone to pick with Israel?
- krembo 7y agoIsraeli here, this is very far from being true.
- krembo 7y agoOn top of my head only from HW perspective, one of biggest Intel microprocessors R&D centers is located in Haifa IL (recently leading the Ice Lake - Core i9) and manufacturing center in Kiryat Gat. Intel also acquired MobileEye for their autonomous cars technology. Apple had a few acquisitions in the recent years such as Primesense (the inventors of MS XBOX Kinect sensors), KLA acquired Orbotech, IBM acquired Trusteer and so on. Moving this thread to SW will make it blast. Either way, the contributions of such a small country to the tech world is not proportional.
- onyva 7y agoUSA corporations like IBM, Microsoft, Google and Intel buy and invest all over the world. In Israel Microsoft’s investment was used (as well) to stop the government (ministry of education) to drop any interest in open source and free software. So it’s a mixed bag. I’m specifically talking about bringing products to market. There are non. And “looking at my comments history” to not-a-patriot shame me is soooo Israeli... I tell it like it is. Again, what’s was Israel’s big product brought to market after Epilady? What about Indians stuffing (unprofessionally) IT jobs all over the world, including Israel btw, ... at least until they brought cheap Russian labor as part of Shamir’s demographics re-engineering of Israel to produce a “Jewish” majority with (at least) 30% non-Jewish Russians... but that’s another story and yet another myth needs busting.
- onyva 7y agoForgot to mention how often Intel threatened to close shop if it want get the tax exemptions it insisted on. So, let's be honest, there's hardly anything special about this pattern of corporate investment and outsourcing of development.
- eli_gottlieb 7y agoStill, the country is terrible at turning successful startups into big, stable firms.