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		xnorswap 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Garmin's –$40B Pivot I found it interesting that they mention Tomtom as being a footnote. In the UK, TomTom was much bigger than Garmin for in-car GPS: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=GB&q=g... It guess they didn't have the same market penetration / dominance in the US market.

tacker2000 8 months ago [–]

Same on the continent. They were a dutch company, so i guess they didnt have time to really expand much in the US until they got killed by smartphones.

Yeul 8 months ago | [–]

TomTom is now an app on smartphones. I still use it I can't stand Google maps and their annoying ads.

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