okay so the very few examples you named have been bought up and are now part of american companies.
And did you really just bring up komoot, a outdoor biking/hiking app, as a comparison to silicon valley? lmfao
2) that having an American owner doesn't make them directly American or magically cause them to be in Silicon Valley
3) The country names I put in brackets
4) The location of Zürich and CERN
And instead want to focus on the fact that one specific example of a top ranked app is not all by itself an entire sector, while ignoring all the other examples *right next to it* or the fact that this was trivial to find.
To demonstrate why you're missing the wood for the trees, consider: I can accurately say "Facebook" isn't really all that important, it's just an advertising provider getting in the way of people trying to talk to each other — but that it isn't all of Silicon Valley all by itself doesn't mean its headquarters are not relevant as an example of "Silicon Valley".
1) why they were bought by the American companies
2) that having an American owner doesn't make them directly American or magically cause them to be in Silicon Valley
3) The country names I put in brackets
4) The location of Zürich and CERN
And instead want to focus on the fact that one specific example of a top ranked app is not all by itself an entire sector, while ignoring all the other examples *right next to it* or the fact that this was trivial to find.
To demonstrate why you're missing the wood for the trees, consider: I can accurately say "Facebook" isn't really all that important, it's just an advertising provider getting in the way of people trying to talk to each other — but that it isn't all of Silicon Valley all by itself doesn't mean its headquarters are not relevant as an example of "Silicon Valley".