| You didn't answer the question, who produces the most successful/influential tech companies if not the US? >"How much innovation in other countries was stifled because of the way the US companies operate?" So the reason the US leads in tech is because they have stifled other countries tech development? Can you provide some concrete examples of that? Maybe you aren't aware but foreign talent is a corner stone of U.S tech. More than a third of top US tech companies(Tesla, Qualcomm, Google, FB to name a few) have founders born born outside the US[1]. This has been discussed many times on HN. So why did those people go to the US and start tech companies? Were they prevented from leaving the U.S and starting companies in their native countries? In terms of companies building walled-gardens and consolidating market share that is called capitalism and it wasn't invented in the U.S. Additionally nobody is forcing anybody to use any of those platforms. You yourself said you don't use them. I get it, you are anti-American and your entitled to that. But your statements are really naive and seemed to be informed solely by anger. I find your sense of victimization quite sad. [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/top-tech-companies-founded-by... |