Apple Maps has gotten much better since iOS7. As much as I hate the interface, it sure is a more useful OS. Except for when I accidentally close apps after using the four finger swipe up twice, thinking it didn't register the first time... And those times I want to search and end up pulling down notification center, of vice versa.
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Apple Maps Significantly More Popular Than All Other iOS Mapping Apps, Including Google
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Not surprising.
People will use Apple Maps more because it is given to them. Google Maps you have to download.
Same reason why Internet Explorer because popular - not because of superior quality but because it was shoved in front of the user, and the user may not know alternatives exist, or care to download.
Apple Maps has improved, but IMO, Google Maps is more reliable and useful ( i.e., more modes of transport, better mapping data etc ).
People will use Apple Maps more because it is given to them. Google Maps you have to download.
Same reason why Internet Explorer because popular - not because of superior quality but because it was shoved in front of the user, and the user may not know alternatives exist, or care to download.
Apple Maps has improved, but IMO, Google Maps is more reliable and useful ( i.e., more modes of transport, better mapping data etc ).
The use and interface of Apple Maps is simply outstanding even though it makes far too many errors.
For goodness sake. I feel like yelling No ... sherlock!
Who'd have thought - an app that comes with the phone is more popular than an app you download separately.
NEWSFLASH: Safari is more popular than Chrome on iOS.
See...I can do it too
For what it's worth, data wise Apple Maps are still crap in the UK.
Who'd have thought - an app that comes with the phone is more popular than an app you download separately.
NEWSFLASH: Safari is more popular than Chrome on iOS.
See...I can do it too
For what it's worth, data wise Apple Maps are still crap in the UK.
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Traffic info still sucks on Apple Maps so while I use it for driving directions, I rely on Google Maps for traffic info.
Like others have said, it's crap in the UK.
And of course it's more popular, it's a default app.
And of course it's more popular, it's a default app.
Google maps is far better for places where I am, if I search for example "church" on Apple Maps it shoots off to the nearest city and finds a bar with the word "church" in the name, but on google it drops pins in the 9 nearby churches in my hometown.
Apple maps is much nicer to navigate around though. When browsing on Google Maps it felt clunky and often span the whole thing around when I didn't want it to. The best analogy is it felt like using Android straight after iOS. Eurgh. Horrid.
If trying to find a place I'll use Google, but if I'm just browsing around or plotting directions using street name + number or area code I'll use Apple maps.
Apple maps is much nicer to navigate around though. When browsing on Google Maps it felt clunky and often span the whole thing around when I didn't want it to. The best analogy is it felt like using Android straight after iOS. Eurgh. Horrid.
If trying to find a place I'll use Google, but if I'm just browsing around or plotting directions using street name + number or area code I'll use Apple maps.
Good for turn by turn
I find maps great for turn by turn - integration with contacts is great. It the point of interest stuff that is still poor. For experimentation I have informed apple (via the app) that a local business is no longer there about 25 times since maps launched. But still shows as there.....
I notice though that for where I live google data for restaurants etc isnt that great either. Out of date, or incorrect locations.
(I live in the UK)
I find maps great for turn by turn - integration with contacts is great. It the point of interest stuff that is still poor. For experimentation I have informed apple (via the app) that a local business is no longer there about 25 times since maps launched. But still shows as there.....
I notice though that for where I live google data for restaurants etc isnt that great either. Out of date, or incorrect locations.
(I live in the UK)
Apple maps once told me that in order to drive a 5 mile distance between Queens and Brooklyn, it would take me 41 hours and go through a route in Ohio.
And this was just two weeks ago, so none of that crap about how it's "better."
And this was just two weeks ago, so none of that crap about how it's "better."
You do realise thats a completely (statistically) false argument don't you?
What I mean is, that whilst Apple maps may be better for your usage that does not mean it's better for the world's usage. Statistically Google maps are more accurate world wide. So whereas Apple maps may have 'pockets' where it's good, as a whole, it's still very inaccurate - still to the point where they are not fixing issues reported on launch day (We still have shops that have been closed for 20+ years listed for example).
It's silly to declare "X is the best - FACT" as its more a case of "having tried both options, in my location X seems to give more accurate results".
Your milage may vary - no mapping app is "the best".
Part of the issue is that in some scenarios we just don't get the choice.
Whenever I launch a maps application to look for something, it is always Google Maps because I consider it to be better. However, if I click on a link to an address or ask Siri to navigate to somewhere, I don't get the choice to use an alternative.
Most are only using Apple Maps because it's on the phone or they haven't heard of Google Maps.
The other day, I decided to give Apple Maps another try on my 5S only to be let down as usual. 1st it tells me to turn left at the exit, but the map displays right. Then it says to make a U-turn in the middle of a divided intersection. Back into the "hidden" folder it went.
I'd love for it to be on par with Google, but it's still highly unreliable!
The other day, I decided to give Apple Maps another try on my 5S only to be let down as usual. 1st it tells me to turn left at the exit, but the map displays right. Then it says to make a U-turn in the middle of a divided intersection. Back into the "hidden" folder it went.
I'd love for it to be on par with Google, but it's still highly unreliable!
Tried it this week
I did give it a try - again - this week here in the UK and frankly it is not yet usable.
Don't know exactly why, but clearly not yet to the standard I'd expect of an Apple product.
All the other Apple products I have just - work - but maps doesn't
I did give it a try - again - this week here in the UK and frankly it is not yet usable.
Don't know exactly why, but clearly not yet to the standard I'd expect of an Apple product.
All the other Apple products I have just - work - but maps doesn't
"approximately two million of those [are] using the pre-iOS 6 default Google Maps application because they have not upgraded to a newer version of the iOS"
...or were not given the option to upgrade their relatively recent but still somehow obsolete hardware, such as the 4th gen iPod Touch...
I have other devices that can run iOS 7, but I'm still irked that a device that was considered the top of the line only a year and a half before iOS 7's release is unable to run it.
...or were not given the option to upgrade their relatively recent but still somehow obsolete hardware, such as the 4th gen iPod Touch...
I have other devices that can run iOS 7, but I'm still irked that a device that was considered the top of the line only a year and a half before iOS 7's release is unable to run it.
Just like IE6 was more popular on Windows a few years ago.
No. People use what comes on a device, if it's "good enough" or they "don't know better".
Luckily this probably means that Apple Maps is "good enough" now, rather than the abysmal wreckage it launched with.
Both reasons were covered in the article. Apple Maps is default and some don't bother to search for a replacement. Google maps still wins IMO but Apple maps is definitely getting better. PS. Anyone notice Google's latest Maps update (at least for desktop)? It's pretty nice.
Same here.
Good enough, but when you are in a maze of one way streets, maps keeps sending you around the block several times until you realize maps doesn't know that it's a one way area.
That's when one can check with google.
But, most of the time maps now, will get better each year.