Could you live without US products? | Made in Germany

No Lady Gaga, no House of Cards, no Brangelina, no Hollywood gossip, no coffee to go, no hamburgers, no iPhone... Our reporter is living a week of abstinence, how will he get on?

[TheAndreArtus]

This video lacks context. Why should we consider living without X products. Who wants to, or is asking us to, live without X?

All products can be replaced, or exchanged for an alternative when there is sufficient pressure to do so: think Fanta or the Haber process. Necessity is a mother.

[cccPaKYccc]

you can get Ubuntu phone (UK) or jolla phone (Finland).

[keithlarsen]

THAT MUCH KETCHUP MAYO AND MUSTARD? This is why you lost both world wars.

[noboru]

Sigh. Short clips like those are supposed to make people aware of how dependent they are from the products of a certain country and only a German broadcaster would get the idea to use foreign ones instead of native ones.

Yes, living without US-American products is a hard task - not only because of the entertainment stuff, but also because computer chips are pretty much only US-American brands. In a way, we're at least indirectly dependent on US-products. However, there are also lots of German products like in the machine (e.g. industrial robots) and chemistry sectors which to replace would be an equally hard task for other countries.

[fobbitguy]

maybe they should move out of Berlin too as the Americans helped defend it for decades.