It sounds like you’re advocating for using local products rather than the best products available.
That’s fine but it’s not something that will ultimately benefit the EU after China and the US retaliate in kind.
That’s fine but it’s not something that will ultimately benefit the EU after China and the US retaliate in kind.
I mean, I'll never use MS products nor buy an Apple product, ever. Not even if they have the nicest X. Because I don't like the prospect of a world where it's only MS/Apple. So I use products that are good for an open world as much as possible.
In the real world, people support local businesses. People support small business and hand-made products, even if it's more expensive. Because that's how you grow your local economy.
That's fine as a consumer. But as a business and a professional I don't have time to muck around with half-baked "local" solutions when better solutions exist.
Obviously Google's stack enabled them to be successful.
I think tools like Python, Ruby and PHP still are great. Not everyone is Google-scale.
Right now US companies are hiring eastern European developers directly for "whatever they want to be paid" and local companies cannot compete on salaries. Whole world is paying US companies, EU companies are local at best in couple of European countries and even then they have to spend loads of money on localization.
While US is 331,449,281 people and EU is 447,706,209 differences between EU counties are a lot bigger than between US states. If you start up with a company you can start in single language and single country - moving to other country takes loads of effort.
I might be wrong about how it is easy to scale business between US states but I expect it is a lot easier than in EU.