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If by GPS you specifically mean car navigation. Because almost the entirety of Garmin as a company is built around putting GPS into various things including wearables.

But even in automotive they pivoted to working with car OEMs instead of relying on sale of independent devices.

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Never seen a Garmin car navigation device.

Aerospace, Garmin was, is, and probably will be big

They were definitely a major player for a long time prior to smartphones becoming the number one GPS solution (for most cars). Garmin, TomTom, Magellan, etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u-sGHMivwo

I remember their in car navigation being huge in the 2000s in the US, maybe 2005 or so was their peak, before that they were very expensive. Probably a lot of people know the brand just for that.

Might be US-specific thing then, or at least they were not very present in the Central/Eastern Europe

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