If Apple had stayed with Google maps, we would still use old Google maps without turn-by-turn navigation.
Steve Jobs wouldn't want me to download it.
Right, and 9 in 10 didn't download it, which is probably why 90% of people claim their maps work just fine.
Note that the 1 in 10 includes people like myself who downloaded it to toy around with, to realize Google still doesn't have 3D of their town and shows your apartment as a corn field (admittedly, as does Apple maps), and won't actually be using it.
There is absolutely nothing to suggest that Apple customers have "indicated" their preference - that's pure conjecture.
It would be interesting to be able to look 6.5 years into the future and see how far ahead Apple Maps will be compared to Google after the same time to develop.
It would be interesting to be able to look 6.5 years into the future and see how far ahead Apple Maps will be compared to Google after the same time to develop.
Even if 1/3 of all users download and switch to Google maps google just went from having 100% of the iOS map market, with a contract that one assumes paid hard dollars and had other benefits to Google, to having only 30% of the market without any direct revenues.
If Apple sticks to improving its maps as it goes this will only decrease, not increase. If Apple completely abandons its maps then Google has provided a much better implementation for free than before (note how this one will do turn by turn navigation?)
So how exactly is this a win for Google?
Why, just because its better than Apple's maps app? Or because it really is THE best app in the AppStore? I haven't used it much, hence why I'm asking.
If Apple had stayed with Google maps, we would still use old Google maps without turn-by-turn navigation.
Any feedback you have is welcomed, here in G+ or in the app (just shake it).
Lets not forget that iOS includes iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad - Google Maps users are likely to be just iPhone (no 3G on iPod Touch so less likely to use Maps, and the new Google Maps is not currently available for iPad).Though 10 million is a significant number, it still represents just a fraction of iOS users. Only three days after iOS 6 was released on September 21, Apple announced that it had been downloaded onto more than 100 million devices.
This is bad for Google. Apple Maps will get better and will be a clear alternative to Google Maps.
Oh, and did you know that Google's AdWords and AdSense is all stolen technology? Just Google Vringo.
Lets not forget that iOS includes iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad - Google Maps users are likely to be just iPhone (no 3G on iPod Touch so less likely to use Maps, and the new Google Maps is not currently available for iPad).