On: Offshoring roulette: lessons from outsourcing (2016)

[cosmodisk]

What differentiates US (most big software names come from there) from the rest of the world is their ability to sell. There are already enough countries on this planet that can produce high quality software that could be sold as hot buns.What most of those countries don't have is the huge VC industry+ tons of people who know how and who to sell be it B2B or B2C. This, however is changing slowly and you can expect much more level field over the next 10-15 years.

[pm90 → cosmodisk]

This is not accurate at all. What really differentiates the US is:

* fucking largest economy by far as your domestic market ie no import duties or import/export taxes

* truly massive investment by Government and Private sector into CS research

* high tech economy focused mostly on services which demands all tools it can get to improve business processes

* high disposable income via financial instruments for cheap debt (also less taxes than most developed countries)

* largest talent pool of Universities that keeps bringing in the best and brightest across the world

The ability to sell is far far less important than the systemic reasons listed above that give the US an incredible edge in the software industry.