Jet another 14nm CPU... so don't expect any noticeable performance boost. Even low-voltage iPhone XS CPU has the same single core performance as top-notch Intel processors for workstations... Apple is already using 7nm, but Intel needs at least 1-2 years more to make their 10nm manufacturing process working. This is what happend when a tech company only cares about high margin and nothing else.
Yes, better not incorporate any business at all, than do it in Germany. You will waste 50% of your time on bureaucracy, instead of developing your product.
Germany has a lot of drawbacks to be the next silicon valley:
* the most difficult tax system in the world. even freelancers have to use accountant services, because most people will not be able to pay taxes properly without it.
* high taxes - 42% income tax + Solidaritätszuschlag 5.5% = 47.5%; for corporations it's ~30%.
* A LOT of buerocracy. I can't even send an email to tax authorities in my area, because they only accept paper letters but nothing else.
* highly qualified foreigners have to learn German and it's quite difficult language.
* the market in Germany is much smaller comparing to USA. If you want to target EU, then you have to support a lot of different languages, date/time formats, regulations and laws etc.
* recently the EU introduced a lot of additional regulations for internet companies (GDPR, new copyright directives that require checking uploaded files, etc...).
* weather is not that appealing as in the valley.
* the difference in salaries between regular developers and rockstars is very low. So there is zero motivation to become one.
* low salaries for software engineers. The most of senior software developers will earn 50.000 - 60.000 EURO anually and after paying taxes it's only ~2.600 EURO per month (3.000 USD)
* poor internet connection in a lot of places / poor connection speed - almost any country is better in this regard
Europe is a no-go area for any startup. Instead of building your product, you will spend all your time complying with thousands of GDPR-like laws, difficult tax regulations, different languages etc. and every country has also a lot of additional national laws (Hackerparagraf in germany for example). It's just not worth it.
Almost every printed document also have hidden yellow dots that allows you to get certain information about that document (print date, print model etc...)
Developing a SaaS product based on completely proprietary stack that you can't even host yourself is VERY dangerous!!! Just yesterday there was a report that twitter bought a company and immediately closed their API access to all customers.
What will you do, if Amazon decide to close your AWS account for some reason? What if they discontinue one of the services you use?
So, my next smartphone will be iPhone, even if I prefer open source. AdBlockers are just too important. Not only they protect your privacy, but they also stop some malware programs that use ads for spreading. And don't Google & Amazon already make 30% from app sales?
I tried Rider may be 2-3 months ago and it was much much slower than Visual Studio 2017. I also had problems with font rendering (I use DPI > 100%) and all dialogs like open file are non-native, but from Java. Looks completely different than standard dialogs from Windows. So I will continue to use VS2017.