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Apple Maps Significantly More Popular Than All Other iOS Mapping Apps, Including Google
After a rough launch last year, Apple Maps appears to be doing very well for itself, with 35 million U.S. iPhone owners using the app in September 2013, versus 6 million iOS users of the downloadable Google Maps according to data from comScore and The Guardian.
The data remains a little fuzzy as neither Google nor Apple publicly release their usage figures, but if they are even close to correct, Apple has largely succeeded with its Maps rollout and Google has lost a tremendous number of Maps users in just a year.
It's likely that Apple's success is largely due to the incredible advantage default apps hold on mobile platforms, with the majority of users finding Apple Maps to be "good enough" and not looking for an alternative.
According to comScore, Google Maps has gone from 81.1 million mobile U.S. users last year to just 58.7 million this year, a drop of more than 20 million. At the same time, the total number of iPhone and Android phone users in the U.S. increased from 103.6 million to 136.7 million. comScore attributes this significant drop largely to the introduction of Apple Maps as the default app on iPhones, as well as an increasing share of younger users that don't use any mapping application.
The data remains a little fuzzy as neither Google nor Apple publicly release their usage figures, but if they are even close to correct, Apple has largely succeeded with its Maps rollout and Google has lost a tremendous number of Maps users in just a year.
It's likely that Apple's success is largely due to the incredible advantage default apps hold on mobile platforms, with the majority of users finding Apple Maps to be "good enough" and not looking for an alternative.
According to comScore, Google Maps has gone from 81.1 million mobile U.S. users last year to just 58.7 million this year, a drop of more than 20 million. At the same time, the total number of iPhone and Android phone users in the U.S. increased from 103.6 million to 136.7 million. comScore attributes this significant drop largely to the introduction of Apple Maps as the default app on iPhones, as well as an increasing share of younger users that don't use any mapping application.
ComScore's data shows that in September 2013, 35m used Apple's maps at least once during the month, out of a total iPhone population of 60.1m. The 58% usage on the iPhone is reckoned to reflect the growing number of younger users who do not use mapping services; the proportion of iPhone users who use any mapping service, including Google's, has been dropping since April 2012, according to ComScore's data.35 million iPhone owners used Apple Maps in September, out of 60.1 million total iPhone owners in the United States, some 58 percent. Based on The Guardian's modeling, this means roughly 8.3 million iPhone users are using an alternative mapping application like Google Maps, with approximately two million of those using the pre-iOS 6 default Google Maps application because they have not upgraded to a newer version of the iOS.
Wood said: "The thing is, on an iPhone all roads lead to Apple's maps. They're putting this front and centre for users, and getting more confident." For Google, he said, "They're very fortunate that Android is a big source of data - they will be very relieved at that." He cautioned that US iPhone users might be more eager to use Apple's maps because there seem to be fewer errors there compared to other regions, including Europe.
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75 months ago
Well it is the default mapping application for iOS now... nothing too surprising.
75 months ago
Stockholm Syndrome.
I recently has my daughter's first birthday party and 3 people got lost solely because Apple Maps sent them to the wrong location.
I don't plan on using Apple Maps for a very long time.
I recently has my daughter's first birthday party and 3 people got lost solely because Apple Maps sent them to the wrong location.
I don't plan on using Apple Maps for a very long time.
75 months ago
It's more popular because it's better! I use maps and GPS on a daily basis and every time I give Google maps a try it fails me. Apple maps is by FAR the best navigation app out there!
75 months ago
It still returns the worst results for me in NY.
Google def has better routing through incomplete addresses, such as, "10 w 23th" but if I enter that into apple, the I'll end up in Bangladesh.
But google also tosses me to Brooklyn for some reason every once in a while, and google likes to zoom out and show me results all over the metropolitan area instead of just in the little box I'm zoomed into.
Google def has better routing through incomplete addresses, such as, "10 w 23th" but if I enter that into apple, the I'll end up in Bangladesh.
But google also tosses me to Brooklyn for some reason every once in a while, and google likes to zoom out and show me results all over the metropolitan area instead of just in the little box I'm zoomed into.
75 months ago
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.
75 months ago
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.
75 months ago
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
It's still rubbish in the UK.
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
75 months ago
Once I want to go to a museum, Apple Maps led me to the backdoor of the museum, which is used by those who worked there...
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