[Dracophoenix]

>But most importantly, the US is a single market with 300 million consumers with a high purchasing power, making scaling of SW products and services much easier than in a fragmented market with about 24 different languages and many more different cultures and differing regulations, with some EU member countries having conflicting interests on many important topics, making scaling of SW products across EU members a nightmare if you're not flush with cash. Which is why we're full of thousands of small local companies that don't have any international leverage.

And what stopped Japan from achieving what Europe couldn't?

[ChuckNorris89]

>And what stopped Japan from achieving what Europe couldn't?

Why would you assume Japan would be different? They have most of the issues Europe has in the SW scene.

[Dracophoenix]

Japan has (or at least had) several advantages that Europe still lacks. Single language, high and concentrated population, highly technological consumer markets, massive government and corporate investment in semiconductor and software.

For a while, Japan's was beating the US in semiconductor advancements. If the Japanese software scene failed, I'm not convinced of how it would have happened the way same Europe's had.

[peanuty1]

Germany also has one language and a high and concentrated population. As do Britain and France.