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the company that made 'drone' mean 'quadcopter with a camera' instead of 'military death robot'.
means a chinese company that dominates the consumer and prosumer drone market so completely that its name is basically synonymous with camera drones.
from founded in 2006 by frank wang, a hong kong university student who started tinkering with helicopter flight controllers in his dorm room; by his late twenties he was a billionaire running the company that owns roughly 70 percent of the global drone market.
market shareover half of us consumer drone sales
origin storystarted as a dorm room thesis project
us scrutinyflagged repeatedly over data security concerns
founderfrank wang, once china's youngest self-made billionaire