alt Hacker News> First, it is not European alternative - it is Finnish. _Europe_ is not a single country.
What are you talking about?
Is there a law of nature that you can only refer to origins in terms of countries.
A Finnish alternative is, nyt extension, a European alternative.
It is not innocent like this. In this context European is not simply used as a geographical designation of origin.
No one says that Samsung or Huawei phones are Asian alternatives to iPhone.