It's time to pick up the smartphone
Your phone is Europe's biggest digital sovereignty problem: fewer than a million of the EU's 350 to 400 million smartphones are European-made. A five-part deep dive on the dependency and what it would take to change it. With a free source appendix and a PDF edition.
The report runs in five parts, each readable on its own, with a free source appendix for anyone who wants to check the work.
Part 1 of 5
What is the situation?
350 to 400 million smartphones in the EU, fewer than a million European-made. The installed base, the market forces, and the European phones that do exist.
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Why is it a problem?
Seven layers of dependency, from the phone in your hand to the question underneath everything else: Who decides how Europeans live?
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What does independence look like?
Where the phone touches money or identity, Europe already wins. Payment, digital identity, and whether that independence can be extended to the platform itself.
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Replacing the phones, and five futures
The replacement arithmetic, why the dependencies survive even with new phones in every pocket, and five scenarios for how this plays out.
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What, and how long, will it take?
Who would have to act and how, the milestones on the road to viability, and why the mundane decisions are the ones that count.
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Sources
The full source list behind the report, grouped by theme. Free to read, for anyone who wants to check the work.
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