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> I don't see any EU, Canadian or Australian designed smart-phones, Office365, Google, Chat-GPT, AWS, I can buy reaching critical mass. ... EU, Canada, and the
by Terretta 3y ago
> I don't see any EU, Canadian or Australian designed smart-phones, Office365, Google, Chat-GPT, AWS, I can buy reaching critical mass. ... EU, Canada, and the rest of the west are lacking in world dominating SW companies and rely exclusively on the US, which the US can always use as leverage.
Reached critical mass, or even world-dominating: Nokia, RIM, Figma, Skype, Spotify, Hetzner
> the US dominates
... by buying them.
// Of these, RIM lost critical mass, Spotify is on uncertain ground, and Hetzner seems fine.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>Reached critical mass, or even world-dominating: Nokia, RIM, Figma, Skype, Spotify, Hetzner Not even close. All of those are meh in terms of market cap and have plenty of competition making them easily replaceable by US alternatives. The likes of Apple, Nvidia, Office365, Google, are irreplaceable in the EU, and they could buy all of those companies if they wanted to.
- thebruce87m 3y agoArm powers a lot of the devices from these companies
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoYes, and? How much money does arm make for the EU economy? How much money do Apple and Nvidia make for the US economy?
- Terretta 3y agoNot present tense. Point is whether EU could reach critical mass or domination, not whether could sustain. In their day, RIM (Canada) for biz and Nokia (EU) for normies destroyed US mobile sales.
- throwaway20004 3y agopretty sure figma is american
- Terretta 3y agoYou're right and I can't think who I was thinking of in the web design space.