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One part of the problem, that he’s completely missing is that those are are not fairly competing free market prices. Many of those hegemons like Google gain their positions using what basicly is dumping pricess. They are loosing moment or Gmail, Maps, Drive, Gemini (AI), and many more “free or cheep”. Competitors are buried, bought on, copied, or starved as they need to.compeat with someone who is willing to burn millions. So many services that are leaders in their fields didn’t deliver a single dollar of profit yet. Their literal business plan is “we will take it all back once no one will have a choice anymore”

“Just find a way to compete” is basicly victim blaming at this point.

@Ideonek @guest I don't think thats the main issue. Europeans (governments, companies and people alike) are prone to make themselves less / smaller than they really are in a #calimerosyndrome We are not 'show-offy' enough apparently.

#kSuitePro is cheaper than #MS365 or #Workspace
#magicearth works better than #maps for navigation (less distraction)
#LibreOffice and #Linux just work for 95% of users if they have the will

Don’t know much about magicearth,

But workspace have, so much more features than kSuitPro, that this is not even a fiar comparison. Even if you dont count externalities like Gemini, Video, notebookLM…

The convenience of Google Photos is unmatched, buy any corresponding services.

Mistrel AI is a Clippy compared to ChatGPT and Gemini Advenced. Those companies are burning money on every query, but - until they kill everything else - they are generating tremendous value to the users. Idea that Minsterl would be just as popular if only it promote itself without false modesty is hard to defend.

LibraOffice is free, but google sheet is as well, and cloud-ready on top of that.

Linux… sure, but for the same people free chromeOS is just as good if not better becouse more convinient. With google anything is in cloud anyway, right? Sure, Linux is amazing. But it’s not exactly out-of-the-box. And if we count android… And who knows what Fussia will bring?

If you don’t want to pay, Google offer is more convinient. If you do want to pay, it’s broader and more powerful, all things equal.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s a trade of worth making. But pretending it’s easy and that there are no costs is misleading people. I’m doing it. I’m committed. So far I paying twice as much as I did pay for my tech-stack, and there are still gaps that I lost in the process.

But it won’t change, and only be worse if we are not ready to be uncomfortable for a while. It’s a diet. If we oversell how easy it is, people will try and go back to junk food in a minute.

Immortaly gained superiority is exactly my initial point.