Comment by shimman
9 hours ago
Is US tech even good anymore? Do none of us not encounter the massive amount of shit from companies like Google, MSFT, Apple, Amazon, etc as users? Truly terrible bugs or user flows from engineers that clearly don't care while everyone is just collecting their own share of blood.
I can't think of a single thing that big tech has done to improve my life, or society for that matter, over the last 10 years.
All US Tech has is the backing of the US government and that is likely to change in the coming decade, without the pressure of the US government would these companies be as competitive? We see what happens when others try to, rightfully I might add, regulate them: they throw extreme hissy fits and pressure the US government to force the countries to back off (by threat of sanctions or military action).
I sell/work as a consultant for m365 and azure and the services are definitely getting worse. AI translated garbage docs in which "plane" is translated as aeroplane (Flugzeug), Exchange as "Umtausch" (literal meaning of to exchange something) and so on. Obviously those are the ones I can remember because they were funny. There are also other errors that are not as obvious.
And don't get me started on slopilot being everywhere.
What has Rome ever done for us?
I see US (software) tech going the way of Boeing and Intel in the next decade. I’m not sure what their long term goals are, or if they even have any beyond chasing large/quick short term profits, but you can only enshittify your product and abuse your customers for so long before they start abandoning you.
I predict the cloud providers survive.
> I can't think of a single thing that big tech has done to improve my life, or society for that matter, over the last 10 years.
Apple silicon has been pretty transformative for desktop/laptop-class chips.
Transformative sounds a bit exaggerated. It has a nice power consumption to compute power ratio, but it's not like order of magnitude above the rest.
A lot of the Apple Silicon magic is also due vertical integration with the OS IMHO.
I had CPUs since I've been alive, a faster one means very little to mean when the subsequent software is still trash.
It has been transformative for the insidious kind of lock-in that the post mentions.
No, US tech is driven by investors willing to risk allocating a ton of capital towards companies and products that have a good chance of succeeding.
Europe has been struggling and behind on tech and investments way before Trump. It’s policy and over regulation that prevents Europe from making any inroads