We have some people like System76 doing great things, but not in Europe and for all their great work its not the highest quality stuff from China with some serious limitations.
For all the things the European Union funds, from chip manufacture, HPC and many other project from large to medium to small. Why have we not seen a made in Europe Laptop/Desktop/Phone for the bureaucrats and engineers who do things like running states and building weapons and so on.
A fair amount of EU money goes into a lot of these distributed system and internet projects. And I'm not complaining, but we are spending a lot of time trying to make our system secure from everything other then direct attack. The fireware in the new notebook doesn't seem better then in the one before, in fact worse in some way.
We have most of the software, we have most of the things needed to do these things. An Open-Source computer for Europe (and anybody) would be a real counter-point to most of the other models out there.
In such an environment a real AppStore for Open Linux desktop could actually be a really good thing.