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It'd be cool if something innovative launched in Europe for once. Nearly a billion people with very few global consumer technologies originating there.



Shadow [0] launched a cloud gaming offer in 2017. Jean-Baptiste Kempf, one of the lead developer of the VLC project just joined as CTO. The problem isn't to create consumer technologies but to be commercially competitive against major players like Google or Amazon with deep pockets.

[0] https://shadow.tech


America is just a goldmine. 300 million people with GDP comparable to Norway and Switzerland, that all speak the same language, and are covered by a single set of federal regulations. Plus taxes are much lower and there are fewer consumer protection laws in general. It's a businessman's dream.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...




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