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weren't even considered Phones had navigation before they had GPS chips based on cell location. Standalone GPS navigation devices with similar form factors to
by nitrogen 5y ago
weren't even considered
Phones had navigation before they had GPS chips based on cell location. Standalone GPS navigation devices with similar form factors to phones existed as well. And GPS dongles for laptops allowed turn-by-turn navigation back when an iPhone was a bulky thing that sat on a desk and dialed into a landline ISP.
- s1mon 5y agoYes, those existed at some level, but once GPS was built in, it became “free” and easy to get location. Assisted GPS (using cell position and downloaded ephemeris) also meant you didn’t need a couple minutes for a dedicated GPS to go from a cold start. There wouldn’t have been Uber, Yelp or Pokémon Go before location was just an API call.