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2 months agoIt’s hard to find any electronics that is EU, or for that matter non-Asian. The entire electronic supply chain is in Asia centered around China, so they will have a competitive edge.
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Good thing iDEAL payment system is part of EU payment initiative and has some of the lowest fees you’ll see in the world. Grocery stores for example will refuse Credit Cards from Visa and Mastercard, but they’ll take iDEAL payment in the Netherlands. Netherlands is not the United States.
iDEAL has been acquired by WERO which is an EU initiative for pan-European payment system. Wero is being rolled out by banks in France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxemburg.
That’s not an option for a lot of countries that are going cashless. In Netherlands (we have our own payment service) a lot of merchants are cashless.
Good job compiling this. I’m looking for a new sneaker so I’ll be using this list.
More competition will ensure the oligarchs to behave.
I don’t trust the EU tech owners, but I recognize that they are at an disadvantage to the US counterpart (and nationalism is a useful tool to sell their product) so they won’t be making overt moves to dismantle European democracy.
I worked in a Nabisco factory a decade ago in the US making Oreo.
They’ve consistently looked for cost cutting measures to reduce the amount of cocoa powder (expensive input) put into the product. What happened when I was there was they would look for a new vendor that would offer stronger cocoa flavor profile per kg and then use that as a justification to cut the amount of cocoa powder in the product. To mask it they would amp up the sweetness.
In a blind test, a normal people can’t tell the difference year to year, but if you compare it to what it was ten years ago, there would be a noticeable difference.
Will check it out!
Maybe petition local government to transition their IT into EU based service?
I know it will probably fall on deaf ears, but I’m thinking about contacting my local politicians about transitioning government IT into Linux OS and EU Cloud service. I don’t expect them to take me seriously, but at least I can take four hours of my life every half year.
The network effect makes it very difficult. It’s like pulling teeth right now to convince my spouse to give up on Instagram.
My Dutch bank hasn’t adpoted it yet. Still on iDEAL, which makes me sad.