As far as I know, Swiss laws regarding online privacy aren’t all that great. They’re even more regressive than other countries. Swiss quality doesn’t mean much in software, if anything most Swiss companies are very much behind in terms of best practices or modernity of software. Whenever I see “Swiss software quality”, I run the other way now that I know how the sauce is made.
Even the government sucks at online security, see the debacle of the city of Rolle and the cyberattack they suffered last month. If this is not pure ignorance and incompetence, I don’t know what is.
Not even mentioning several “made in Switzerland” software company whose only claim to Swissness is that they have an office with two people in Switzerland and all the rest are European or Indian contractors (not that these people are worse, just that it’s a marketing thing to tout Swiss software if you’re going to outsource 90% of your development offshore)
Most of the time, claiming Swiss anything is a marketing move and an excuse to justify charging much much more for something.
I don't have any opinion about "made in Switzerland" for software (other than that it does make a good impression for my customers), but anecdotally (at least when shopping within Switzerland) I have noticed that the "made in Switzerland" stuff at the store is better quality. And sure it's more expensive, but all the crap products are expensive too.
Even the government sucks at online security, see the debacle of the city of Rolle and the cyberattack they suffered last month. If this is not pure ignorance and incompetence, I don’t know what is.
Not even mentioning several “made in Switzerland” software company whose only claim to Swissness is that they have an office with two people in Switzerland and all the rest are European or Indian contractors (not that these people are worse, just that it’s a marketing thing to tout Swiss software if you’re going to outsource 90% of your development offshore)
Most of the time, claiming Swiss anything is a marketing move and an excuse to justify charging much much more for something.