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Re:Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself" by herbst on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @04:14AM (#39286300)
We don't need a silicon valley. No need for a ultra concentrated tech valley. We have many small tech valleys all over Europe. With many many good, honest, privacy respecting companies.

We just don't have that unicorn culture. But do we need highly overvalued tech businesses?

Re:Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself" by Bancakes on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @04:45AM (#39286498)
Who wants that? A market made up of clustered, small-time players that don’t have to live up to standards, and don’t have their hide in the game?

A market made up of clones and forks, all worse than the prop competition.

Re:Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself" by herbst on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @04:50AM (#39286529)
Not sure if you are sarcastic. But that is exactly the reason why we have such a abundance of high quality products and depend way less on mid quality products of big brands.

Alone food quality is on a whole different level in Europe, exactly because we have, allow and welcome small time players reinventing the market.

Re:Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself" by dzhiurgis on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @05:45PM (#39295355)
Vilnius is sometimes touted as new valley yet hosts all the shady VPN companies that engage in hacking your home cameras, routers and tv's so they can offer IP addresses at residential space!

They are just as privacy invasive as US albeit with less financing which means they are even more ruthless and hostile.

Re:Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself" by herbst on Thursday February 08, 2024 @03:23AM (#39299600)
See, good that there are many places, so that the VPN bullshit can't make the other cool places a bad name.