The EU doesn’t need to be a technology-taker – it can be a technology maker. The Apple/Google duopoly may have sewn up the mobile market with illegal monopoly tactics, but that doesn’t mean that the EU will never spawn another Nokia or Ericsson. The shortest, most efficient, most reliable path to reestablishing technological sovereignty for the EU’s half-billion residents and 27 member-states is to allow domestic firms to take over the relationship between the Trump-controlled American tech giants and the Europeans who rely on their technology.
We don’t typically have our highways owned and operated by for-profit megacorporations. It should be the same with operating systems. It’s the base layer on which all the applications rely. That’s too much control placed in private hands.
Ooo Nokia should rise from the grave and build interesting phones again!
They did, almost a decade ago. It’s called HMD Global.
Some oldhead execs from the original Nokia went and formed HMD Global, then re-aquired Nokia’s original mobile phone division shortly after.
Can you imagine , Nokia starting an open source hardware and software system, funded by the EU
One can dream, can one?
Someone tell HMD to get on this. They own the OG Nokia’s mobile phone business (had a contract to keep using the Nokia name until 2024, rebranded as HMD last year)
And now we wait for apple to capitulate and sell anyway.
Pfah, every capitalist can threaten, do it!
I’m sure they will say no to European cash. Definitely. They’re just principled like that.
Just like Chinese cash.
Uh huh, they sure don’t care about an economy comparable to that of the US.
And nothing of value would be lost.
