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You know that EU also have computers engineers ? It’s not like we couldn’t survive without Apple or Google. Probably nobody wants it to happen but if it were t
by pjerem 3y ago
You know that EU also have computers engineers ? It’s not like we couldn’t survive without Apple or Google.
Probably nobody wants it to happen but if it were to happen, well, I prefer regulated companies than monopolies.
- AlchemistCamp 3y agoYeah, I think that’s the likely direction, similar to the path China took in the aughts. There will probably eventually be some reasonably large EU-based social networks and maybe even operating systems. I don’t think that will save you from monopolies, though. Network effects are strong.
- draugadrotten 3y ago> You know that EU also have computers engineers ? It’s not like we couldn’t survive without Apple or Google. You vastly underestimate how interconnected and dependent the modern tech stack is. EU computer engineers would be thrown back to 1950s if they could not depend on decades of US engineering and services. I say that as a European. EU is clearly playing a losing game here and is well on track of becoming the world's largest outdoor museum.
- toyg 3y agoApple and Google are not "decades of US engineering". They are two corporations that really exploit decades of (open source) US (and European) engineering to siphon huge profits to tax havens. If they were to exit the EU market, Europeans would still have access to US engineering just fine.