Relying on well developed tech from a reliable long term ally makes sense, it's hard to deploy enough resources to compete when the resulting products will like

Relying on well developed tech from a reliable long term ally makes sense, it's hard to deploy enough resources to compete when the resulting products will likely be worse. But that calculus has completely changed, the US is no longer a reliable long term ally. The EU's reliance on US tech is an utterly massive security and economic liability. Maybe their own products would be worse, but that'd still be better than alternatives that can get sabotaged or yanked away at a moment's notice. A decade ago I would have expected EU alternatives to be much worse but I'm less sure these days. Most US tech companies have moved past the innovator stage and spend most of their efforts on rent seeking and marketing. All that said, I don't actually expect the EU to handle this well. They've been fumbling long term threats with regularity, and I don't they'll suddenly start doing better. They'll probably muddle along with most of their US dependencies until a massive disaster hits them in the face.