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To: Wuli

Agreed. As negative of a force as our tech companies are, they are in their position of dominance because of the greatness of the American free enterprise system. No European socialist “action plan” is going to beat that. If Nokia or some similar company had the chops to successfully compete with American tech, they’d already be doing it.


12 posted on 08/22/2019 9:18:22 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: irishjuggler

At one time Nokia did “have the chops”. Its cell phones were “the best” for the price when I got my first cell phone - about 1996/7. I think every U.S. cell phone telecom was selling Nokia phones at the time; I got mine from AT&T. I guess Apple, Motorolla (Android) and others already had ideas in the can and were doing more R&D when Nokia was resting on its laurels. I don’t think that was due to any Finish government decision, as they did not acquire a stake in Nokia until 2018. I think that was purely a fact that Nokia was bested by competitors. When they were hot they surely had no lack of access to the U.S. market/marketplace, so I don’t think it was any American “nationalism” that they lost out to.


25 posted on 08/23/2019 7:29:26 AM PDT by Wuli
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