Originally Posted by Jakebeth
I've myself used or seen the fruits of many innovations like electronic phone recording in call centers, electronic taxi dispatching, internet firewalls, etc. That gastric camera capsule was developed in Israel right? The Centrino chip? (other Intel innovations?)
The Intel Dothan(Pentium-M) and the new Yonah processors were also developed in Israel. The thing is that the Intel brand is so well established here so the AMD brand is almost non-existing. AMD have just announced opening an office here realizing there is a huge market and they are totally missing it.
The same goes with Microsoft against Linux and/or Mac. I believe more than 95% of the machines connected to the internet in Israel use Microsoft Internet Explorer so developing websites that support other browsers becomes an unnecessary investment and many websites in Israel simply do not support anything but IE.
E-Commerce in Israel is at a beginning stage but is picking up fast. Website usability and overall look improves accordingly.