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Also, "my data is handled by a company under the EU law" is quite a good sale pitch these days.
by BiteCode_dev 6y ago
Also, "my data is handled by a company under the EU law" is quite a good sale pitch these days.
- loltyler1 6y agoIt is not.
- mprev 6y agoYou'll need to give some more detail. When I worked with a European cloud host, customers in Germany demanded German data centres and EU ownership. I've seen enough people/companies ask for that to convince me there's at least some demand. What's your reason for saying it's not a good differentiator?
- gizmo 6y agoThat's a specific thing in Germany. Not true for Europe as a whole.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Also, "my data is handled by a company under the EU law" is quite a good sale pitch these days. Everyone operating in the EU is under EU law, including Amazon, so it's certainly not a competitive pitch vs. Amazon, however much it might be on a checklist of things customers are looking for.
- mprev 6y agoFrom the perspective of a customer who cares about these things, though, there is a difference between a non-EU company bound by EU law and an EU head quartered company. I'm not saying it's enough to build an AWS-sized business or that Lidl is in a position to do it but there are cloud hosts who sell themselves specifically on that, such Exoscale.com
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoIn opposition to the rules from the American authorities, which begets things like PRISM. Also, it's a matter of culture, the native law context of a company drives a lot of the things they do internally.
- VWWHFSfQ 6y agoI can understand this. I would never prefer a German company if there was an equivalent American company providing the same service. In some ways it must feel like a loss of sovereignty to be so heavily reliant on American companies for necessary services. Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, etc.
- eru 6y ago> I would never prefer a German company if there was an equivalent American company providing the same service. Why?
- VWWHFSfQ 6y agoIf the service and quality is equivalent then I would prefer to give my money to an American company since I'm American
- eru 6y agoI would prefer to keep my money, if I can. Otherwise, I don't think any of Germans or Poles or Chinese or Americans etc are better humans than the other. Or more deserving. There's a bit of an argument in favour of buying from poorer countries, like China or Bangladesh, I guess.
- VWWHFSfQ 6y agoIt's not about being better humans or more deserving. More just about being self-reliant and supporting the economy that most directly affects me.
- rsynnott 6y agoIt's complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_Stat... There are absolutely companies who won't use Amazon due to concerns over things like that.