All good points, but also consider that for an American "invented" and "commercialized" are almost synonymous. Google Facebook, Apple, Twitter etc., invented themselves into existence from the ether with no prior work done by anyone else.
All good points, but also consider that for an American "invented" and "commercialized" are almost synonymous. Google Facebook, Apple, Twitter etc., invented themselves into existence from the ether with no prior work done by anyone else.
Apple... not true. Apple is a company who's been doing its business by assembling tech invented by others, as to offer integrated final products that offered an advanced and reliable service they could market with high profit margins. It's the story behind the Apple I and II, the iPod, or the iPhone. And Apple OS are UNIX-derived.
The 3 others are in fact service companies. Google made its success by offering a service they didn't invent, but through a technology they invented and that was more effective than the competition. Facebook or Twitter sure invented their service, although not out of the blue and taking inspiration from others, and as for the tech they use, some is their own but a lot of bricks are not.
For the rest, the scale and often pro-monopolistic nature of the US market helped them a lot on their way to become world giants. It does not mean their tech or their product is always better than what others can invent.
All good points, but also consider that for an American "invented" and "commercialized" are almost synonymous. Google Facebook, Apple, Twitter etc., invented themselves into existence from the ether with no prior work done by anyone else.
Apple... not true. Apple is a company who's been doing its business by assembling tech invented by others, as to offer integrated final products that offered an advanced and reliable service they could market with high profit margins. It's the story behind the Apple I and II, the iPod, or the iPhone. And Apple OS are UNIX-derived.
The 3 others are in fact service companies. Google made its success by offering a service they didn't invent, but through a technology they invented and that was more effective than the competition. Facebook or Twitter sure invented their service, although not out of the blue and taking inspiration from others, and as for the tech they use, some is their own but a lot of bricks are not.
For the rest, the scale and often pro-monopolistic nature of the US market helped them a lot on their way to become world giants. It does not mean their tech or their product is always better than what others can invent.
I assumed that my use of the word "ether" would signal that I was not being serious.