[MR4D]

Quoting Charmeau from the article,

  "I think we are in different worlds,” he said. “In the US, they think and they speak like this. Our mission is different. Our culture is different.”

Yes. Yes we do.

As a fun analogy, I'd love to think what would have happened if AT&T had kept their operators and not put in electronic switches.

Commerce would still be back in the 1950's, and everyone would work for AT&T. We'd be making nowhere near as many calls, and business would operate much slower than today, meaning innovation & collaboration would be much slower than today.

But that's the choice