Germany doesn't have their Amazon. They have their BMW's and Volkswagen's. That's their Amazon.
>>China is wasting effort by creating things because they don't wanna use the things rest of the world uses
So why did Ford have to create his company when Volkswagen existed?
>>rest of the world doesn't wanna use their things because it would be giving power to a non-liberal democracy.
Democracy doesn't mean two hoots in a world where economy dictates everything from domestic policy to international policy.
Absolutely nothing wrong in being self sufficient. Being self sufficient has helped Asian economies more than we know. India and China both have nuclear programs, our own capabilities to run our space programs, and launch our satellite and take of ourselves and our economies.
If anything we should be building our capabilities than depending on other nations.
Germany and France are 1/10 the population of India or smaller. India is 2x+ USA populations.
>China is wasting effort by creating things because they don't wanna use the things rest of the world uses, and the rest of the world doesn't wanna use their things because it would be giving power to a non-liberal democracy.
Then of course US citizens can have their cake and eat it too, both using what "the whole world uses" AND having control over them because its their services.
All I am saying is that there is no need of creating the same piece of software by a different team of people just because of NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here). India should spend time in creating other things.
China created its own search engine because they want a feature i.e. censorship, which Google doesn't offer them. France and Germany don't need their own search engines because there is nothing in Google which they want but latter doesn't offer.
All I am saying is that India should focus on making unique things specific to Indian population only. For instance create a Horoscope matching service similar to OkCupid, now that makes sense. Housing.com makes sense. Indian Facebook doesn't make sense.
Let's not get carried away. The rest of the world doesn't want to use their things due to a combination of (a) not knowing about the things; and (b) the things being in Chinese.
Refusing to be screwed and looking after your interests isn't racism or xenophobia.
