Comments by "belstar" (@belstar1128) on "How Did Europe Fall So Far Behind? (In Tech)" video.

  1. Yea but most people don't see their stuff its just running in the background
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  2.  @kubo-svk790  Yea but you are not understanding what i mean .they are very important but i am not using anything they make directly. they make the things that are used to make the things i use. if there were competitors doing the same thing i wouldn't notice it .
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  3. People here are uncreative and didn't see a lot of thing coming nokia was the number 1 smartphone brand in the early 2000s but they thought everyone would prefer to use buttons and this was the opinion of most people even in America. but apple took the risk anyway and it was a success same with things like twitter or Facebook or Instagram the average European investor would have thought they would flop and not invest. but in America they took the risk and it was a great success most people here also start hating on you if you got a business idea and assume it will flop. same if you go back even further in the 70s most European companies focussed on mainframe computers because they didn't think anyone would want a pc and it was more profitable and safe .but if you look at what people did with these mainframes you will get why people thought that. some people knew about things like video games but investors in Europe didn't and thought people would only use it for calculations and refused to invest and laughed at people who suggested that people would use a computer for entertainment .a little later in the 80s the uk made a lot of great computers for the time that were much cheaper than what American companies were making. they were a success at first but they didn't have a long term plan .and every time they made a new computer it was not compatible with the previous one. so everyone just turned to ibm and apple the ibm and even the old apple 2 and mac could be expanded so while the original model was not great other companies could improve them. but these uk computers had everything hardwired and soldered and they would even sue companies who made improved versions of their hardware. also in the 80s half of Europe was communist so they couldn't do much and in the 90s and early 2000s they were too poor to capitalise on the early internet .and even now some of eastern Europe has issues .like there were a lot of small tech companies in Ukraine and Russia that were growing the Ukrainians are not doing well for obvious reasons and the Russians get banned everywhere and the Russian gov keeps making them censor while all the coders get forced into the army . speaking of conscription a lot of countries still have it including rich ones like Switzerland and Finland. i know some companies had like half their workforce conscripted these tech companies usually only got young men working there .in more low tech companies they got plenty of people in their 30s and 40s and 50s who will keep on working who already did their time. and i also think tech companies usually show up in big waves .you had a big wave in the mid 2000s with the rise of social media (like meta) .another one in the late 90s with the rise if the internet (like google and amazon)and another one in the 70s with the rise of the pc (Microsoft apple) .and even before that time with the many improvements in analogue and mechanical tech . but in the last few waves europe was often betting on the wrong horse or didn't see it coming on time. maybe when the next one comes we will be ready or at least another place like Asia .
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  4. They weren't always ahead but for a very long time at least
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  5. The Germans had some bad influence
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  6. The only reason china isn't using American stuff is because they are arch rivals
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  7.  Dr.Kay_R  it has way higher population density size isn't everything look at Canada
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  8. Asml is just an industrial company i think European companies lack creativity so while the make good products. they stick to things they know and just trying to make better versions of things that already exist
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  9.  @valentijnrozeveld3773  yea but they don't make consumer products .and if asml was replaced by another company nobody would notice. they are about as important as the people who mine the copper .important for sure but i don't really notice it as a consumer. but with something like a website or operating system you can really tell who made it .
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  10.  @valentijnrozeveld3773  but I mean if they get replaced by another company
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