The Solutor wrote:
I'm sure that this is what you are sincerely thinking, and I'm also sure that a lot of others are with you, BTW I suggest to look @ the comments made in some sites like engadget, every time a nokia or sonyericsson product is launched, an EU decision is presented and so on, I (obviously) know that US and engadget aren't synonyms but the latter is surely a spotlight to the current US society.
You read far too much into blog comments, and give far too much credit to a few trolls.
Sure, some EU decisions may be good for ridicule, but many we agree with - even though they'd never apply here. I'm sure you could say the same about US policy, no?
The Nokia gear we get here today is pretty lackluster - it didn't used to be that way. That's Nokia's problem, not US citizens, tech or otherwise, dissing them. Bedding down with Microsoft - time will tell whether that was the right decision, but it is anything but controversial...
Sony will always draw critics as well as raving fans. They make a lot of bold, unique products, but often, they're designed in a bubble, fail miserably, and the analysis never filters back up the chain. Quality varies widely.
Personally, I've had Nokia, Ericsson, and Sony phones, and preferred all of them over the mundane-but-durable-and-cheap Samsungs i have today. But those mfr's don't make, nor sell in our market, equivalent handsets - again, the result of business decisions.
True, but usually when economy and patriotism can walk together, they usually do (in the US and outside the US).
Not exactly. While corporations will push hard to have policy (or protocol) that favors them, that's insider dealing in the beltway - again, a handful of people, not the public.
But we are on a tech site so I'm aiming to the tech aware people.
Ok, so dial down to the population here - I think you'd find while some of us may trend a little Conservative and question "the" (as if there was only one) european state of mind, that doesn't extend to technology or protocol or persecuting Microsoft. If you polled, you'd probably find a supermajority of the US crowd agree with your technical analysis on BT, GSM, etc.
I submit that you're looking for a conflict, where there really isn't one.
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