[bzb6]

It seems you don’t see the value in having one integrated provider for everything. Other people clearly do.

Also if there were GOOD European alternatives to those google service people would use them, but there simply aren’t. Low salaries and terrible regulations are to blame.

[SiempreViernes]

I'm not sure many people go upload on youtube because they already had a gmail, and a small enterprise loosing all their documents because they got their home made ads copystriked by drive by DMCA trolls also doesn't sound like a great integration feature...

Honestly, what, beyond the account infrastructure, is integrated in googles consumer products?

[piva00]

Do you understand the difference between US vs EU markets? As in: demographics issues, language issues, product targeting issues?

There are no good European alternatives due to a conflation of these issues, not just because of regulations, that's such a naive (or willingly ignorant) take on a complex issue.

How would European tech companies start and compete against FAANG right now? Given that the EU market is quite fragmented between demographics and language? How can an European tech company avoid being acqui-hired or acqui-killed by one of the current massive tech giants?

If you don't develop your arguments of what kind of regulation holds EU tech companies back and posit that against the issues I mentioned then I can't really trust you understand the problem and differences between markets that give benefits to the US economy, as it always had, it's a massive and more homogeneous economy than the EU.

Let's compare US vs China tech as that seems more of an appropriate comparison from the baseline.

[jariel]

I don't think regulations are holding people back.

Low salaries, yes, but that's a failure of leadership, but also a systematic problem of companies inability to make tons of money.

It's a long laundry list and it can't be boiled down just to a few things, they are so intertwined it's hard to separate the issues.