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In other words it's more about whether the EU market is favourable relative to other markets?
by n4r9 1y ago
In other words it's more about whether the EU market is favourable relative to other markets?
- roenxi 1y agoNot exactly. The general centralisation trend is a result of relative forces. The EU's suitability for a software ecosystem might be relative or absolute. It is like if one country bans encryption and another doesn't. Any company that relies on encryption will be in the other country, but even if there were no alternatives they still wouldn't be in the first. They've been banned. So the first is relatively unfavourable, but in an absolute sense the same companies just won't exist there. In the case of the EU, relative inferiority to the US in software makes the situation more extreme, but they probably couldn't maintain the same ecosystem even if they were the entire market. People get very excited about breaking up large companies, but as far as I can see there needs to be a behemoth like Google to fund Gmail and YouTube. The market price for something like Gmail is more like $5/mo unless there is an advertising giant involved who sells the data and can find ads buyers anywhere in the world. I don't think it is obvious that the EU would tolerate a home-grown Google.
- n4r9 1y ago> The market price for something like Gmail is more like $5/mo Proton Mail has a largely similar feature set on the free tier, yet appears to generate steady profit from paid subscriptions.
- roenxi 1y agoTheir free tier is strictly inferior to Google's though, Gmail is 15GB storage free, proton is 15GB paid. Coincidentally that is the difference between me being able to use the service for free and not.
- n4r9 1y agoWow! I've been using Gmail since it was in beta and I'm on less than 6GB. Do you get a lot of big attachments or something?