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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by corobo on Friday June 29, 2018 @06:12PM (#17428236)
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

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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by another-one-off on Friday June 29, 2018 @08:25PM (#17428841)
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.

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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by dflock on Friday June 29, 2018 @10:17PM (#17429148)
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.
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