The Chinese navigation system has ascended to a dominant position in its home market, driving nearly US$80 billion of economic output last year.
  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    13 days ago

    now being used over 1 trillion times a day

    they used BeiDou to guide users on journeys of a combined 4 billion kilometres per day.

    being used on 288 million smartphones

    None of these mean anything to me without a comparison to GPS’s usage. Only the 288mill can make some sense out of context, but again I need GPS usage to really understand it. This article never gives us that lol

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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      13 days ago

      And it is really not measurable anyways since they are used passively. You don’t send a signal back to indicate that you want to use it.

      And it doesn’t matter at all since most GPS devices actually use whatever satellites they can get a signal from, regardless of origin.