What products have European tech companies made that the average person uses often?
I can only think of Spotify.
Would love to be enlightened otherwise.
I can only think of Spotify.
Would love to be enlightened otherwise.
If you buy a Western-designed device with microcontrollers in it, they are often made by STMicroelectronics, NXP or Infineon, all European Silicon companies. They are all in the pockets of random people in smartphone form or in their laptops and PCs.
Klarna and Wise are widely used European payment processors. Your car's entertainment system is probably built with Qt which is Finnish. If you used Miro for Kanban stuff you used Dutch software.
Solidworks probably was used to draw most of the devices you use daily, it is French. Your electric car is probably designed in Siemens NX and they made the plug charger for it as well.
Catia, another Dassault 3D CAD platform that predates Solidworks, is French.
We can also expand the previous list of companies with HelloFresh, TrustPilot, Bolt, Brainly, Shazam
Also, if we think in term of people instead of companies, many big tech companies have offices in Europe or buy European companies. They employ European people with tech skills and productivity that seem good enough for those tech companies. So we can say that European people also make products that the average person uses often, even though their company is not labeled as European.
Mostly I think that scientific education level is an important factor for jobs in tech companies, and Europe seems to be ok in this area.
Seems to get quite a lot use each day.
Many products from Europe are not as visible or in face, but they are there.
* Ericsson (Swedish) communications, including 5G equipment.
* ARM (UK) processors.
OK these are used by non-so-average people:
* Python (Dutch) programming language. DuckDB (Dutch). Polars (Dutch).
In this light, how do you classify the products of companies like Google, Amazon or even Intel that have significant number of people working in Europe?