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Yes, very much so. It is basically a standard across the western world for politicians, journalists, whatsapp refugees... Of course there are many alternatives

by blfr 14d ago

Yes, very much so. It is basically a standard across the western world for politicians, journalists, whatsapp refugees... Of course there are many alternatives but most of them have most of their users here, on HN. MacOS, iOS, Windows, Linux, Android are all made in the US and are also virtually universally used. This idea that people avoid American products is super niche.

macns 14d ago
Yes they're used all over the world but .. super niche? Have you been living under a rock? https://www.zdnet.com/article/europes-plan-to-ditch-us-tech-giants-is-built-on-open-source-and-its-gaining-steam/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/europes-plan-to-ditch-us-tech-... https://github.com/switch-to-eu/switch-to.eu https://github.com/switch-to-eu/switch-to.eu https://www.europeanswitch.com/why-european-providers/ https://www.europeanswitch.com/why-european-providers/ https://www.techspot.com/news/112362-europe-may-restrict-microsoft-amazon-google-handling-sensitive.html https://www.techspot.com/news/112362-europe-may-restrict-mic... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/europe-zoom-teams-france-us-b2913584.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/europe-zoom-... linux us made in the US? An open source OS, with collaborators from all over the world initially started by a finnish student and still actively the main orchestrator of it, linux torvalds. Not to mention the thousand distros derived from it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux PS: take this post as an opportunity to educate yourself rather than downvoting it.