Trump threatens trade probe after 'discriminatory' EU fines against Google, Apple
Google CEO Sundar Pichai thanked Trump at a White House dinner after a U.S. judge issued a favorable ruling in the landmark antitrust case against Alphabet.
This means that the fines hit the spot.
It means they fawned enough over him to get him to help them out. Got to love bribes.
The main problem is that far too many Europeans mindlessly cling to everything google. There are plenty of suitable European alternatives. Probably not for every use case, but more than enough to grow European tech and support European business. https://buy-european.net/en/alternatives
For personal use, maybe, but right now there aren't any replacements for things like AWS, Azure, GC. Imagine being the architect telling a company to go with eurocloud inc because it fits the current specs only to have to tell them a year later that they either can't grow their business because the chosen solution doesn't do what AWS does, or that they have to spend money on migrating to one of the big three?
I want a law that prevents EU PII data from leaving the EU without explicit consent from all the countries of affected citizens, applied to public contracts starting in 2030, with private companies starting in 2035. That would exclude the big three until they make fundamental changes, if at all possible given US law, and give European cloud providers the money to build their business.
There are plenty of european alternatives and for services you can self host plenty. I use an iphone because of an unfortunate circumstance - which I deeply despise - but I turned off icloud and I fully self host everything: immich for photo video, baikal for val/card dav sync, i use tuta mail, etc.
Stopping using big tech is perfectly doable, you just have to want it enough. Start self hosting of cloud host with european providers and offer it to family and friends.
That golden statue that Tim Apple gave him is already paying off.
We are, completely unironically, transitioning to megacorp cyberpunk politics
Do it! Let’s see you do it Donny, you fascist POS! You don’t have the cojones!
I hope Europe divests we need alternatives in tech to battle global oligarchy
Oh so Ursula's appeasement didn't work? Who would have thought.