Remember back when Apple introduced their first maps app with navigation? Recall all the complaints and poor service? As we fast-forward to today, it seems as though Apple has made a huge comeback. Not too mention Google at first telling every iPhone user they would not develop an iOS Google Maps app after Apple cut them out of the default mapping app on iOS devices. Shortly after Google changed their mind and everyone rejoiced. After all, Google Maps was king for so long in the free mapping apps and especially Android having navigation support for so long before Apple finally got the long awaited Apple Maps.
Long story short, according to some research there are a ton more Apple Map users versus Google Maps users for iOS. As a matter of fact, 23 million iPhone users dropped Google Maps last year! In September results revealed that 35 million used Apple Maps compared to just 6 million users on Google Maps. A key item is out of the 6 million, 2 million of the users were on older model idevices and cannot update to the supported iOS 6 at the minimum.
Personally, I have had experience with both Apple Maps and Google Maps as an iOS user as well as an Android user. From the experience it would be safe to say I prefer Apple Maps over Google Maps. For the most part Apple Maps always seemed to give better directions. Not too mention when using an iPhone it’s just easier to use Apple Maps because it is fully intergrated into the OS. It also saves space by not having an extra map app that does the same thing Apple maps does (generally).
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