Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
by mountainriver on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @01:51PM
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I think you would have a very hard time proving this without leveraging monetary policy. Sure some low level components are and companies built on top of that but it doesn’t mean the tech I’m using is supplied by the US government.
Pretty much all the tech I use comes from the private sector
Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
by palata on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @08:20PM
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You mean, like the Internet? Or GPS?
Also the US government is injecting a ton of money into private companies, so it's not necessarily visible.
Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
by mountainriver on Sunday October 09, 2022 @05:11PM
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yes the internet and GPS were created by the government, but a bunch of other stuff isn't
Probably because the EU (government(s)) doesn't sink as much money in to research as the US government. The technology of the US was built on Cold War spending:
* https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
Most of the tech we used in our day to day lives was also created with government spending:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entrepreneurial_State