This is Nokia erasure .. although admittedly they died. Europe was the innovator and market leader for a while there.

There's a deeper market argument about the relatively open GSM versus the US CDMA which was more of a Qualcomm monopoly.

I think it's more the US did the whole embrace-extend-extinguish to all their EU competition. There were EU-developed smartphones up until Google/Apple ate the world.

I remember a time when everyone wanted a Sony Ericsson phone.

America innovates by using Korean screens, British CPU architecture, Japanese cameras, Chinese manufacturing, Australian invented Wi-Fi, ...

God the US superiority complex can be insufferable.

We use our Civilization Ability "Globalism" to tie all of those disparate components into trillion-dollar consumer devices. It gives us a massive advantage and lets us run up the scoreboard.