Why is Europe so weak in Computer and IT technology?

Why is Europe so weak in Computer and IT technology?
They don't have a single relevant player in the industry to compete against the likes of Apple, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook.
Those are the companies with the highest profits and market capitalizations in the world so it's not like they don't have a reason to compete.

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Cause they don't care about the world or profits. They are only interested in building software to make the rescue of refugees more efficient and shit like that.

Because we expect them to pay taxes.

All the companies that invented personal computers started here. Why leave?

ARM is a British company and it's worth £23.4 billion. Name one Huezilian world-famous tech company

Underated.

Once upon a time there was also Sinclair, and I believe Acorn in Britain, many other companies as well, but they aren't a thing anymore.

Because the European market is divided by multiple different languages so it is much easier to go and develop in the US since that is usually the target market for this kind of technology anyway.

They pay taxes in the US. They pay taxes in Europe too and China.

Leftists should burn

>They pay taxes in the US.
Yeah tell me about Apple and paying taxes. Or Google for that matter. Wait, okay they pay 0,1% tax on Bahamas sorry I was wrong.

Tech companies are one of the biggest tech evaders imaginable, Dell wanted to build factory over there but the government didn't want to give it total exempt from taxes(just massive cuts) so they built in in some other 3rd world shithole, this is the "IT pays taxes" meme irl.

>e biggest tech evaders imaginable,
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It's Merkel's fault.

Europeans aren't creative anymore because of social democracy taking her of them.

So you don't have any computer industry because taxes? But what about all those industries that don't mind paying taxes? Sounds like a poor excuse.

We have Phillips, Siemens, that one chip maker i forgot the name of, plenty of other players

taxes are theft

Because the IT sector of the US, the only case of an IT sector taking up a quarter of the GDP in the world ($6.42T out of $21.28T), is massively inflated and is being allowed to dodge taxes in exchange for providing the government with literally every information those companies are capable of gathering from you.

>b-but this can't be happening I'm in charge here you're just p-paranoid!

Has been the case from as far as early 2000, after (((9/11))), where the son of a literal director of the CIA who managed to get elected (as well as his father regardless of his background) used his only chance to push an Orwellian nightmare on US citizens and enable the CIA to have an absolute informational control over the population.

We've had relatively modern(better than Chink back then) electronic industry(mostly semiconductor plants, but some computer industry as well) but it was bought out by western investors and closed day after it happened.

Poland is particularly interesting nowadays because you get cheap skilled workforce(particularly mechanics, electricians and so forth), and as such some regions are rapidly re-industrialising, however, for IT you it's not THAT cheap anymore so Pajeet will do it cheaper and Brazillian politicians won't want any tax money from you after you give them million dollars to help with that decision. Here you can bribe your way only up to some point and Leszek aint no Pajeet. The further west you go, the less corruption and higher wages you get.

On top of it IT gets little to no corporate welfare here. There's nothing in Europe like Montreal(which covers half of your expenses if you develop your software there) so they'd rather go elsewhere.

If you're saying that not wanting to start race to the bottom is shitty excuse then... welp, why don't you let all Mexicans in?

Globalist bought them out and destroyed them, and the governments let it happen.

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>Ericsson had 35% market share in the 2G/3G/4G mobile network infrastructure market in 2012.
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Too bad Sweden is African, not European

We got skype

Acorn Computers (UK) - ARM Holdings, ARM processors in everything mobile, company sold to Japan. Go figure.

Polands living standards and economy is literally comparable to the high-end of African countries.

>They are also mixing with new immigrants from continental Europe. Most of the 21,000 children born to Polish mothers in 2012 had Polish fathers; but of the rest, 23% had African or Asian fathers.

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You're close second slav.

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>Most of the 21,000 children born to Polish mothers in 2012 had Polish fathers
> but of the rest, 23% had African or Asian fathers
>but of the rest

It's 300 kids or so. I see this being brought up whole the time so I've checked the numbers and it's literally nothing.
Still better than in Krokodil Country.

Because all of the smart europeans don't want their profits stolen if they invent something, so they move to the US.

Well they've just welcomed a shitload of real smart people, lots of engineers and stuff, I'm sure these new people will get right on it.

Oh yeah, what does Brazil have?

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Do you even have crosses in Swedish churches were all of them taken down to not offend muslims?

Europe is in decay now. the last period of genuine leadership in inovation in the world was pre and during WW2. Even innocuous stuff like Lego were created in the 30's.

Why is Europe so weak in everything?

europe chose socialism. It is an uncompetitive environment for business.

ASML is a Dutch company and currently the largest supplier in the world of photolithography systems for the semiconductor industry. The company manufactures machines for the production of integrated circuits (ICs), such as CPUs, DRAM memory, flash memory.

>Even innocuous stuff like Lego were created in the 30's.
>The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891–1958), a carpenter from Billund, Denmark, who began making wooden toys in 1932. In 1934, his company came to be called "Lego", derived from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play well". In 1947, Lego expanded to begin producing plastic toys. In 1949 Lego began producing, among other new products, an early version of the now familiar interlocking bricks, calling them "Automatic Binding Bricks". These bricks were based in part on the Kiddicraft Self-Locking Bricks, which were patented in the United Kingdom in 1939
Eat shit m8

At least we have Top Hackers

chinese

Do you even have any tech companies at all?
Oh yea I forgot, you don't that's why you are attacking countries that have them.

pic related Zbigniew's computer

ARM was bought by Japanese Softbank earlier this year.

Nokia
Philips
Siemens
Ericsson

That is all I can think of most said in this thread...

CERN is in Europe I guess if you count that as European...

Don't forget Australia. While not Europe, definitely weak at everything

>Nokia
They are called Microsoft phones now. Philips electronics division was bought by Japan some 3 years ago.

>Why is Europe so weak in Computer and IT technology?

There are tech companies, but they aren't like Google or Amazon. But it is a concern in Europe that innovation seems to escape the continent.

It's to do with the culture I think. Europeans have lost a sense of entrepreneurship. Years of socialist indoctrination have equated starting your own business with greediness. Plus, people just look for high-paying jobs rather than pursue their own ideas. In the US, people buy into the American Dream and even though its kinda bullshit, it does create a risk-taking business culture.

More on topic, most of the tech companies that do exist end up migrating to the US. It has to do with the network effect. Spotify was started in Sweden but moved to the US. Why? It's a bigger, more lucrative market in which to be based. The EU isn't nearly as influential as it like to think.

On top of that, any industry that looks like it is going to have some money is taxed to fuck in its infancy by European governments. In addition, there so many stringent data protection laws, the local authorities stay harassing the company with bullshit.

It's japanese now.

Nokia, until it got sabotaged by Microsoft was a big player.
Anyway european companies in the IT are almost all in the professional market, making products for the public isn't really a thing.

There is no reason to launch a tch company in Europe anyway, all the business angels and venture capital firms are in the US, europeans who want to try their luck just move there.
Also socialist states hammered the entrepreneur culture since WW2

>itt op brainlet
we got Nokia that bought Bell labs recently

>Polish humor
Almost as bad as Germans.

Yeah and 80% of the workers in the mentioned companies are Europeans

i don't get why everyone thinks germans are not funny?

>Why is Europe so weak in Computer and IT technology?
Because NSA.

Nice source you got there.