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Agreed, but... they've already "won". Winning doesn't mean driving Google Maps out of existence, it just means being good enough that Google can't squeeze conce

• corobo 8y ago
  If maps is installed on phones as part of the default install doesn't that mean that 25% of people go out of their way to remove or replace it? It says nothing about the users that have no use for maps and just counts them anyway
  • another-one-off 8y ago
    It says nothing about anything, really. There may be specific jurisdictions where Apple maps or Google maps falls over because that is an area they happen to have some bad data for - we can't really tell. Strategically, Apple maps is in a good spot for Apple - Google's offering isn't the major choice of users for a piece of critical functionality.
    • dflock 8y ago
      Apple maps is installed by default on iOS AND is the default mapping app when you tap an address - and you CAN'T change that default on iOS. Given that, their usage numbers aren't as impressive as all that.
• Andrex 8y ago
  Where in the linked article does it say Apple Maps has 75% marketshare? Assuming that number is accurate, as Apple Maps is preinstalled on iPhones it means 25% of users went out of their way to manually remove it. Mission far from accomplished (and hence Apple's efforts in the OP to rebuild Maps' dataset entirely in-house.) I'm also curious what the active usage numbers are versus Google Maps on iOS.
  • sildur 8y ago
    Google Maps is also preinstalled on most android phones.
  • evan_ 8y ago
    > Apple says its mapping service is now used more than three times as often as its next leading competitor on iPhones and iPads, with more than 5 billion map-related requests each week
    • endianswap 8y ago
      That means 75% is an upper bound, right? It's only 75% if Google had the only other maps product, and even they have two popular ones (Maps and Waze) that are likely to be installed.
      • Retric 8y ago
        No, it's more than so it could also be 79%. But, I don't think it's clear if they count Google as the competitor or each app separately.
    • jschmitz28 8y ago
      I wonder whether this includes all of the times where I tap an address link from Messages, Apple Maps opens as the default (which you cannot change[1]), I realize the horror of what I've done, and then I copy/paste the address explicitly into Google Maps. Count one map-related request for each! [1]: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/228904 https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/228904
      • 6nf 8y ago
        Yea I bet if you measure by in-app hours instead of frequency, Google Maps would come out on top even though it's not installed out of the box, and even though all map actions on an iPhone will invoke Apple Maps by default.
      • LoSboccacc 8y ago
• debt 8y ago
  Seems odd to just blindly accept whatever numbers Apple provides about the usage of its own apps. Isn’t it going to be inherently at best a little biased? I guess there’s really no possible way to independently verify these numbers anyway.