I use both Google, Bing, Apple maps and OpenStreetMap:

- For general searching and desktop use I prefer Google

- Bing and Apple have much more up to date "satellite" views than Google (for the areas I am interested in) - Apple maps have a spectacularly good 3d version of the city that I live (Edinburgh) in which I love looking at - Google 3D version had a huge error near to where I live

- Bing has UK Ordnance Survey maps, which is brilliant for outdoor activities

- OpenStreetMap is great for paths/cycle-paths in some areas

Edit: For one area I've been looking at (in Fife) the Google Earth view is about 12 years old - which is actually quite handy as we are looking at buying a house there that was built ~10 years ago so it is interesting to be able to see what was there before the houses were built!

I am not sure the watch is a failure yet but not the best start. I wrote a piece on how much the watch devalues which I find odd how high that figure is https://medium.com/@AndyStannard/apple-watch-depreciation-so...

Took 3 years to turn that around

> Apple Maps is now used three times as often as its “next leading competitor” on iPhone and iPad

https://9to5mac.com/2015/12/07/apple-maps-usage-numbers/

It's still inferior to Google Maps tho. It's not outright bad, but for directions/traffic Google Maps is still miles ahead (at least in random European countries).

Shouldn't it be kilometers ahead in random European countries?

I'd say that Google Maps is streets ahead of Apple Maps still. :P

Not in the UK, should the RNG be so disposed.

s/random European countries/everywhere except GB/

Those numbers might be driven by the quality of Apple Maps, or by changes in iOS: it became less intuitive to use 'leading competitors' on the iPhone and iPad. At least I was unable to send my mom's iPhone to Google Maps when she clicks on an address I sent her - I have to send her a Google Maps link.

Of course, it's the default app opened on click that cannot be changed.

This! In iOS you can delete Apple Maps but it then just prompts you to re-download it when an app tries to open a map. It's worse than the old IE default browser.

I never actually open the maps app on my iPhone. I just ask Siri for directions, and I presume she uses the default Apple maps as the base.

I'd suggest that the data is skewed because a lot of people would be doing the same thing. The evolution of the phone UI basically indicates that individual apps are fading as identifiable components. Modern bots and mashup interfaces just pull data from different app/sources and present an amalgamated view. I neither know, nor care whether Siri is pulling her route data from Google or Apple maps, or somewhere else.

Reasonably, for Europeans this helped them a lot because google maps enabled iOS could not search for businesses or restaurants outside of the USA.

Even if navigation took a few iterations to catch up.