Apple Maps: 5 billion queries per week, 3x more common in use as Google Maps

Three years ago it is now that Apple has brought its own maps app on the market. The end of 2012 the time had come, and in the wake of the release of iOS 6 Google Maps was sacked as a preinstalled application. Instead placed Apple with Apple maps its own app. admittedly ran the launch of Apple Maps bumpy. While some areas of the apps were very successful, other areas were heavily loaded error. Apple has used the last three years intensively to significantly enhance Apple's own maps app and improve.

Apple Maps: 5 billion queries per week

Our colleagues at The Boston Globe have dealt in detail with Apple Maps and report that Apple's own maps app on the iOS device 3x so often is in use, such as Google Maps.This may firstly be that Apple Maps is preinstalled Google Maps and has to be installed and, secondly, that Apple was able to improve the functionality of the app and eliminate errors at the same time.

“They really did a great job in a short amount of time,” said Alex Mackenzie-Torres, a former Google Maps manager who’s now with competing transit app Moovit. “Apple has something that few companies have — simplicity in design mixed with high doses of pragmatism and practicality.”

Overall, it is said in the report, Apple Maps will receive 5 billion user requests per week.The information have colleagues obtained directly from Apple. Apple Maps is 3 times as often in use as Google Maps. It must be noted that the figures refer only to iOS devices.If one looks at the entire smartphone market, so Google Maps is still in the lead.

“We are fast learners and we are fast at fixing things,” said Greg “Joz” Joswiak, an Apple vice president who oversees product marketing for iPhones and related services. “We learned the maps business incredibly fast.”

Apple gets its data for companies, traffic and other information now from more than 3,000 sources. It is further stated in the report that Apple still many plans for Apple Maps cherishes. We can imagine that indoor navigation win in the coming years in importance and Apple will put an emphasis on it. In addition, Apple has been sending a few months vehicles through the streets in different countries to improve their own maps app. What Apple so just leads up to, is not known.