The only issue I see with your plan is keeping the Chinese writing system. Alphabets are superior, even if you write Chinese with them.

Otherwise as long as my ideas about how the world should function get put into practice, I don’t care who does it. By chance of history US was the one who brought quite a few good ideas into the world, mostly in the second half of the 20th century. But there’s nothing fundamentally American about having good ideas.

Multiple incompatible flawed competing standards are essential for a success of any technology

This is exactly why they celebrate it as well. The pointless sacrifice at the other end of the world made them realize they weren’t British any more. It’s usually considered as a beginning of separate Australian and NZ national identity (political independence took some decades more)

Well cultural habits are slow to change. I suspect it would take some 20 years to change the dynamics such than women are always expected to make the first move.

Bumble was well positioned to push for that change, unfortunately earning revenue has a priority, they are are a business after all. Still their gimmick got the ball rolling, we’ll see who picks it up next.

Maybe but governments are slow to react. There will be a couple of months of relative freedom. Then we’ll have to find new apps again.

If making good software was their goal they wouldn’t be in the situation where software engineers are replaceable with AI.

They are removing them for the same reason they introduced them in the first place. Don’t think they honestly believe either way, they just bend with the wind in politics.

They weren’t before? Instagram was running political ads since at least 2017. It went under the radar because it wasn’t in the US, and nobody cares about content not in English.

Better headline: Dell kills all brands

Given that Dell has lost most of it’s old reputation in the last couple of years, not surprising that radical moves were taken. Trying to navigate Dells product range was a quick way to get a headache.