Pretty feeble argument IMO. You restrict your analysis to companies you deem trivial and then you claim they aren&#x27;t innovative. Yet you ignore the entire smartphone revolution that was started by Apple and Google.<p>Innovation and invention aren&#x27;t the same thing. The invention of a technology is only a small component of its success. Combining it with other components to fulfill a good usecase is what makes it something useful. Google is the main player making self driving cars actually something useful,not DARPA funding.<p>You can continue to be apologetic for other countries being so far behind in tech innovation, but it doesn&#x27;t change the point that it&#x27;s happening in the US even though some ignorant commenter thinks the education system gets rid of innovation.