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vladoh · 2021-03-15 16:51:58

Yes, this will probably happen. Many people in Germany already didn't want it, because of it's worse efficiency...

morazow | karma 71 | avg karma 1.65 · | 2014-10-23 20:22:16

I think some German corporations will still be reluctant to use it due to replication, etc.

gatmne | karma 257 | avg karma 3.67 · | 2018-01-06 21:34:11

I doubt they did it out of a desire to better serve users in Germany.

tommek4077 | karma 592 | avg karma 2.45 · | 2022-12-05 05:01:24

And german customers will just endure the added latency? Seems more like opening the company to new markets.

Semaphor | karma 13668 | avg karma 2.69 · | 2023-10-02 10:12:57

In German projects? That would be both dumb and sad. In US projects? That would be expected, even when targeting the German market.

PicassoCTs | karma 808 | avg karma 1.19 · | 2021-05-25 19:53:23

Move seems to be part of that steam for (home/industrial)-automation plan?

Probably doomed. German industry culture is toxic to software. Product perfectionism prevents shipping early and often, often doesen't ship at all, cause hype dies before product is done.

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mqus | karma 1101 | avg karma 3.23 · | 2022-07-05 06:35:04

If only they would actually learn from it (e.g. make it open source). As it works now, no chance this will succeed. Speaking for Germany alone, this would be monumental.

marvin | karma 9832 | avg karma 3.38 · | 2019-11-13 08:41:31+00:00

I'm guessing they'll take longer to get things done in Germany than in China, but hoping that they'll bring their relentless efficiency to Europe as well :)

aptwebapps | karma 2230 | avg karma 2.03 · | 2019-05-06 09:02:59

This would only work in Germany.

worldofmatthew | karma 1986 | avg karma 5.69 · | 2020-07-09 12:15:31

My guess is that Germany will lose its web hosts as no one will trust to host anything in that country if this passes.

jacquesm | karma 227883 | avg karma 3.76 · | 2014-09-02 10:17:27+00:00

Good luck using that in Germany.

voakbasda | karma 3325 | avg karma 2.81 · | 2022-03-18 12:19:07

This is all great, but I do not see any incentive for companies to roll out a broader solution. They will simply enable a workaround for their German customers and continue to abuse the rest of the world.

j-pb | karma 3306 | avg karma 2.85 · | 2019-03-15 20:27:45+00:00

I hope not. As a German I'm really happy that we're in a federation with countries like the Netherlands and Sweden which have much more tech literate governments because they provide at least some checks and balances to the email printers that we have.

eru | karma 30335 | avg karma 1.29 · | 2020-05-12 08:16:33

Amazon would have to enter the German retail market with a Germanized product.

luckylion | karma 3881 | avg karma 0.72 · | 2019-05-25 05:27:25+00:00

They'd be "blocked" in Germany if this came to fruition.

ssalat | karma 55 | avg karma 2.2 · | 2023-09-29 00:25:37

Yes, that can change/improve the adoption in Germany significantly.

MoSattler | karma 1154 | avg karma 2.97 · | 2022-12-16 09:10:30

I really like the idea. But I am skeptic - digitalisation of Germany's public services and offices in the past hasn't exactly been a success story.

nforgerit | karma 942 | avg karma 4.08 · | 2024-01-11 20:54:32

German here. I think what we now see is what local nerds always warned about: US Big Tech is strategically making us dependent on them and when they play the end-game, we're fu*ed.

Sure, they will disable the data collection and gladly obey the rules we put in the contracts (how do we know?). But they'll make sure that we're paying extra money for it. They're sucking away our now even more valuable tax money[0] and our idiotic leadership of panic throws more money into this black hole.

[0] A "Kleine Anfrage" in the German parliament to the Bundesregierung in December 2023 made it public (but mostly ignored) that the German Bundesregierung will pay 6bn EUR to Microsoft and Oracle in the upcoming years. Source (in German): https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/it-open-s...

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nik736 | karma 1631 | avg karma 2.53 · | 2022-08-11 07:13:52

Interesting, but looking at their map they will go live in Germany in 2025. Which is way too late to ride this out.

raverbashing | karma 22421 | avg karma 1.64 · | 2015-07-09 17:25:48+00:00

Sensationalised title

Granted, Deutsche Telekom is already responsible for a lot of crap German users have to endure (like long waits to have an internet connection)

But I guess since most of their customers would be satisfied of using a disk dial phone and usage is kept low by fines to torrent users and half of Youtube being censored by GEMA they have little incentive to change.

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