Old friendship have been feeling unsound latterly , and this is force the EU to reconsider its reliance on non - European tech infrastructure . To get things moving , over 80 signatories represent around 100 establishment have sign an assailable letter to the president of the European Commission , recommend the EU to increase support for local alternatives to large technical school products , service , and infrastructure .
So , what will happen if Europe decides to go ego - sufficient on the technical school front and create its own “ Euro Stack “ ? How will it affect both Europeans and other citizenry around the earth ? Well , they say competition is good for everyone , and I ’m lean to consort . More European tech would intend more competition for American tech , and more contender means good intersection for consumers .
You might think there are more tech products out there than we could perhaps require , but the reality is a piddling more complicated . Take search engines , for example — we all know that Google and Bing are the most popular choices , but there are mickle of alternatives , correct ? Well , not really . Right now , just about every alternative search locomotive engine , fromDuckDuckGoto Qwant , uses the lookup indexes from Google or Bing . This means that , if Google and Bing decided to stop sharing their search exponent , all of these substitute product would halt working .
initiative to build new , main search index have started — such as Brave Search or the unexampled partnership between Qwant and Ecosia — but building a search index is a big project and it will take a lot of time to get the calibre of these new products to where Google and Bing are now .
There are plenty of other model , too . All of the big map software apps are owned by vainglorious technical school company , as are most big AI models and LLM service , instant messaging apps , operating systems , browser app , social medium platforms — and a lot more . When buy a new PC , most consumers have to choose betweenWindows devices or macOS devices — in other Holy Scripture , Microsoft or Apple .
For phones , it’sAndroid or iOS — so Google or Apple . The main problems with current alternatives are that foremost , they ’re too small . In most case , you have to sacrifice functionality , features , and support to try out something new . Secondly , many are built on exist infrastructure from companionship like Microsoft and Google .
The stop is — we do n’t have enough choices . availableness , affordability , and contrivance are always pushing us into the hands of American big tech companies . If the EU decides that its hoi polloi and its organizations need to have access to homegrown choice — you could wager those alternatives will be available worldwide . That means more technical school for everyone , and with the rigorous data point jurisprudence in the EU , we would eventually have a choice between betray our data and not selling it ( rather of the pick we have now , which is just settle who to betray it to ) .
