Results for “Amazon”

Netgear, Linksys & TP-Link 🇺🇸🇨🇳 non-EU

The box every byte in your house passes through.

• AVM FRITZ!Box Berlin. The German default for a reason: long firmware support and a genuinely good interface. 🇩🇪
• devolo Aachen. Powerline and mesh for houses with thick walls. 🇩🇪
• MikroTik Riga. Cheap, extremely configurable, and a favourite of people who run networks for a living. 🇱🇻
• LANCOM Systems Würselen. Business networking, and German-hosted cloud management. 🇩🇪

Apple Music / Amazon Music 🇺🇸 non-EU

Streaming bundled into a hardware ecosystem.

• Deezer Paris streaming, and the first to pilot artist-centric royalties. 🇫🇷
• Qobuz French hi-res audio streaming and purchase, best-in-class sound quality. 🇫🇷
• IDAGIO Berlin service built properly for classical music. 🇩🇪
• Spotify Stockholm-built and still the largest European tech consumer product. 🇸🇪

Apple Podcasts & Pocket Casts 🇺🇸 non-EU

Podcasting is an open standard. The apps need not be.

• Podimo Copenhagen. Subscription podcasts and audiobooks. 🇩🇰
• Acast Stockholm. The largest independent podcast company in the world. 🇸🇪
• Deezer Paris. Music and podcasts together. 🇫🇷
• Spotify Stockholm — the biggest podcast platform is, unusually, already European. 🇸🇪

Alexa, Google Assistant & Siri 🇺🇸 non-EU

You can buy a European speaker. You cannot buy a European voice.

No European alternative

Roku, Fire TV & Chromecast 🇺🇸 non-EU

Three American boxes that decide what your television shows you.

• Nokia Streaming Box Built by StreamView in Vienna under Nokia licence — running Google's Android TV. 🇦🇹
• TechniSat Daun, Eifel. German receivers and streaming boxes. 🇩🇪
• Zappiti French media players for large local libraries. 🇫🇷
• Xoro German Android TV boxes and receivers. 🇩🇪

Tizen, webOS, Google TV, Fire TV & Roku 🇰🇷🇺🇸 non-EU

You can buy a European television. Its software will not be.

No European alternative

Amazon Kindle 🇺🇸 non-EU

E-books you licence rather than own.

• tolino German bookseller alliance's reader; open EPUB, buy from any member shop. 🇩🇪
• Vivlio French e-reader and store backed by independent booksellers. 🇫🇷
• Legimi Polish subscription with its own hardware. 🇵🇱

Amazon Prime Video 🇺🇸 non-EU

The streaming service bundled with your parcels.

• Filmin Independent European cinema without the upsell carousel. 🇪🇸
• MUBI One curated film a day, plus a deep library. 🇬🇧
• Viaplay Nordic originals, films and live sport. 🇸🇪
• Pathe Thuis Dutch video-on-demand rental from the cinema chain. 🇳🇱

Amazon 🇺🇸 non-EU

The everything store, and everyone's competitor.

• bol The Benelux marketplace, roughly Amazon's local equivalent. 🇳🇱
• OTTO Hamburg's century-old retailer, now Germany's number two marketplace. 🇩🇪
• Allegro Poland's dominant marketplace, older than Amazon itself. 🇵🇱
• Alza Czech electronics and general retailer across Central Europe. 🇨🇿

Twitch & Kick 🇺🇸🇦🇺 non-EU

Live video went one way and nothing European followed.

No European alternative

Ring, Nest & Arlo 🇺🇸 non-EU

Doorbell footage, stored in Seattle.

• Bosch Smart Home German smart home with local processing and EU cloud. 🇩🇪
• Netatmo French cameras and sensors that store footage locally by default. 🇫🇷
• Homematic IP eQ-3's German system, VDE-certified, works fully offline. 🇩🇪
• Ajax Systems Kyiv-built professional alarm and security systems. 🇺🇦

Amazon Web Services 🇺🇸 non-EU

The default cloud, and the default lock-in.

• Hetzner German servers at prices that make US clouds look like a rounding error. 🇩🇪
• OVHcloud Europe's largest hoster, with full sovereign-cloud offerings. 🇫🇷
• Scaleway French cloud with managed Kubernetes, object storage and GPUs. 🇫🇷
• IONOS Cloud German enterprise cloud with ISO-certified EU data centres. 🇩🇪

Audible 🇺🇸 non-EU

Amazon's audiobook monopoly, with DRM attached.

• Storytel Swedish audiobook subscription, strong across Europe. 🇸🇪
• BookBeat Bonnier's Swedish audiobook service with flexible hour plans. 🇸🇪
• Nextory Swedish audio and e-book subscription with family profiles. 🇸🇪
• Legimi Polish e-book and audiobook subscription, huge Central European catalogue. 🇵🇱

iRobot Roomba & Shark 🇺🇸 non-EU

American robot vacuums that map your home.

• Vorwerk Kobold Wuppertal since 1883, sold door to door and repaired for decades. 🇩🇪
• Kärcher Winnenden. The yellow machines, and a robot range. 🇩🇪
• Miele Scout Gütersloh, built to the same twenty-year standard. 🇩🇪
• Rowenta Groupe SEB, France. 🇫🇷