Why is there no europian computer?

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[–]useless_aether 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

there is olivetti, siemens.. but you are right. those are small next to dell. then again, most everything is made in china

[–]bald-janitor 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

Same with smart phones... I dont want to buy american goods anymore. Europe only makes car and those cars suck

[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

why not? something like a dell xps 13 is a good little laptop

[–]bald-janitor 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Sony vaio good, hp bad

[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

one day i will build a hackintosh

[–]TiwakingMy Pronouns are Nigger and Boss Nigger 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

There are several reasons:

1) Unions - Unions stifle development

2) Restrictive labour laws. This makes hardware development extremely difficult. R&D loses money until a breakthrough is found. And probably still loses money after that

3) Military funding. Arpanet and all of the Computer hardware had virtually unlimited military funding at the start.

4) Lack of cohesion. This is the biggest obstacle to corporations. You cant mash 24 or more countries together and expect them to be able to compete with a single, giant, unified country.

[–]RatherSmallPotato 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Lack of cohesion.

This so much! if you want to make a simple app you need to have 5 languages and cater for a bunch cultural differences.

[–]ErinCarson 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Amstrad was pretty serious.

There really wasn't a need. With as regulated as "the EU" is, it has been much easier to just import.

Edit: Acorn/ ARM is a big deal still.