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Throwing stone from a glass box eh? If I understand correctly, US is by far the largest services exporter to EU… should EU merely apply the same “tariffs” that US might impose on these goods, some healthy European alternatives would finally gain some ground..
What alternatives to Microsoft, Google, IBM or AWS exist in Europe?
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Good to hear, but probably depends on the country. Ireland is all-in on Azure and only deepening ties.
Same with Holland. The tax office is moving away from their own office package onto m365 right now. They apparently had an alternative all this time, which I find very surprising (the media didn't really elaborate on this). But Holland, Ireland, UK are the most neoliberal countries in Europe, they worship America and believe that the market solves everything. The rest of europe doesn't share that sentiment to the sam…
Ignoring that if the service is free, YOU are the product, is childlike
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Accenture is operating from Ireland, legally speaking. It may be in American hands, serving American shareholders and American interests, and it may have been started as a European front for an American business, but it's technically an EU company. I don't think those kinds of details matter to a government looking to start yet another trade war, though. The list is based on the question "what legally European tech c…
By this logic, FAANG is also EU
But yes, legally speaking, FAANG is also EU, same way Volkswagen is an American company. That's not really how people tend to talk about these companies, though.
Please destroy US tech, Ursula.
The EU can only fine US tech giants because it's good at suffocating its own European companies with some of its members states having one of the highest taxes and subject to the EU's regulations. It's no wonder AI startups like Mistral (France) are so dependent on US VCs and the same is true with Lovable (Sweden) who were able to grow faster than Europe trying to strangle them. Since there are rare startup home-runs…
https://xcancel.com/ustraderep/status/2000990028835508258
Remind me to never look at twitter replies again, by far most counterproductive threads I've seen
It really isn't representative of the real world average human intelligence and capacity to debate or even discuss ideas.
EU has the capital but does it have the knowledge workers to build out alternatives?
Working for Dassault or Rheinmetall on high tech military equipment will net you less than half what you'd get helping Facebook come up with the most effective way to cram as many ads as physically possible in your fellow citizens' lives... it's like we got our priorities backward and reward things than shouldn't even exist