But, like Apple, HP is essentially a product-centric company that needed to grow a service platform onto its products rather than tryentering new market segments with products it clearly did not understand.
But America's fears are economic as well as military: it suspects that the EU might try, for instance, requiring aircraft entering its air space to use Galileo-based navigation systems, to the detriment of American firms with products based on GPS. And European countries, China and the like might develop weapons that are compatible with Galileo rather than GPS, which would mean American defence firms losing a competitive advantage.