It just goes to show that when it comes to Apple, you have to trust your own experience. "The numbers" don't prove anything.
Your misunderstanding what was reported. It was a 29% increase in unique iOS adoptions over their baseline day. So if on Monday 100 new devices, then Tuesday 110, then Wednesday 120, then Thursday 129, so they reported an adoption rate increase. The percentage was a percentage of new adoptions, which turns out to probably include new devices. The 29% had nothing to do with total iOS users.
Again, I think the Maps "scandal" was a scandal because the media reported it as a scandal. 90% of all iOS users will continue to use Apple Maps. Apple Maps will be fine for their needs. And google maps is out and solves the issue just a couple of months after we got our new phones any way. And Apple Maps pushed Google to make Google Maps better. Thanks Apple. Love scandals that end up in better stuff for customers really quickly.
You can't use your own experience to define whether it's an issue or not. The fact that it blew up in the media, received a lot of negative press, and Tim Cook himself apologised for it, is proof that it's an issue. Even if only 20% of the people who upgraded to iOS 6 had problems with Apple Maps, that's still a lot of people. Put yourself in their shoes, if you were somewhere in the world where Google Maps had good coverage, and then you upgraded to Apple maps only to find that the coverage was quite poor in your area, you would be a little bit upset. That very scenario happened to a lot of people, and I think they have the right to call it an issue.
Does this imply that Apple sold 10 million iPhones in the week since since Google maps was released?
Do you care to elaborate on this for me please? Which 3rd party navigation app did you use that was worse, in your experience, than Google maps?
Thanks
No problem. Going from my (now unused) Travel folder on my iPhone, for mass transit in the UK I was using the National Rail, London Tube, and Busmapper apps. I was also using Waze, Quick Route, and Nokia's HERE Maps (in addition to Apple's Maps). I did download a few others that I can't recall, but I've since deleted them.
Google is the world's premier mapping service now. There is no denying it.
That explanation makes a lot more sense, but I would say the numbers were misreported and mispromoted. From the original post:
MoPub CEO Jim Payne, who had this to say:
"We observed since the launch of Google Maps for iOS 6 a 30 percent increase in unique iOS 6 users, and we think it's related to Google Maps."
From the graph:
"29% Growth in unique iOS6 users"
OIC! I was under the impression you were comparing Google Maps to proper navigation solutions like Garmin, Navigon, Tom Tom and Destinator.
As above, if you don't want to invest on a proper navigation app or you're not serious about navigation I'd think Gmaps is your best bet right now.
Bless that you can put such a positive spin on it. Though let's look at the facts, Tim had to officially apologise. Let's not bs each other, had apple maps not been a disaster outside of the states Tim would not have done it. Tim was not apologises cause it had "issues" Tim was apologising cause it was darn right awful in some countries.
I have both a S3 and iPhone 5 in London . Comparing the two, apple maps is crap.
If it wasn't due to US users updating, and over 2 million iPhones were sold in China in three days, plus launches in other countries, that could have chewed up a lot of those 10 million Google downloads. No?
Not sure what you are getting at here.
MoPub released some numbers that show a 29% increase in the number of iOS6 users that upgraded each day globally over the course of 4 days. They attributed this to the release of Google Maps.
However, Chitika disputed that conclusion because they didn't see any jump in the US and Canadian markets, which they cover. Their conclusion was the global jump in new iOS6 users per day was more likely due to the 2 million iPhone 5's that Apple sold in China in that same time period during the Chinese iPhone launch.
There were 10 million Google map downloads in a week. If not many of the iOS upgrades came from the US, they came from abroad. China sold 2 million+ iPhones in 3 days. Where did the other 8 million downloads come from if it wasn't from iPhone 5 sales?
There were 10 million Google map downloads in a week. If not many of the iOS upgrades came from the US, they came from abroad. China sold 2 million+ iPhones in 3 days. Where did the other 8 million downloads come from if it wasn't from iPhone 5 sales?
I live in London. Apple maps is utter *****. The web version of google maps was also awful. I live in a household where four users waited until the new google maps app (which is excellent) before upgrading to iOS6.
I appreciate it may work well in the US, but it is difficult to express quite how badly apple maps hurt apple's reputation in the UK.
Why did you put the word 'issue' in quotes like there isn't actually a problem with Apple Maps?
Have you tried using it outside of America?. In some places Apple Maps is absolutely terrible. Just because your not experiencing the problem doesn't mean there isn't an issue.
Isn't it amazing how two people can have exact opposite experiences with the same product? Oh well, such is life.
I live in the UK too (of course) and even where I live (which is rather remote) I have not had any problems. The only one of note was an out of date overhead sat image (like so out of date my neighbours house wasn't even built!) which I reported and it magically got fixed about 3 weeks later.
Apple Maps has ... a significantly larger locations database than Google.
I don't understand your logic. If there are issues with the map, then there are issues. It's not a subjective thing. There has been many destinations, point of interests, cities where users have identified issues. If you travel to these places and look for yourself then you'll 100% experience the same issue because it's inherent to the map app itself. Just because the places you visit THUS FAR isn't on that list, doesn't mean the issues aren't real.
It's like saying wifi reception doesn't work anywhere but your bedroom. Everyone in the house complains that there's an issue but because you never venture out of your bedroom, so you decide that there aren't really "issues". The truth is that once you step out of your room you'll have issues too.
I don't think I should have to shell out $50+ to make maps on my phone work when there it used to come with something already quite good
and is now advertised to include great maps (that aren't).
Also, I have a standalone Garmin Nüvi that I had to dust off that's not as good as Google's Maps app, so I know what Garmin is capable of.
None of the ones you mentioned, besides being far more expensive than Google's offering and not being as good, also include public transit. Google does.
What rubbish. Even with whatever Apple does have, half of them arent in the right place anyways.
Apple's locations database is significantly larger than Google's.
Having used iOS 6 maps to navigate more than 4000 mile in North America, I would be surprised if the 1% number is to far off.
So no, it is based on actual use and experience.