Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up

Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by evan_ on Friday June 29, 2018 @06:22PM (#17428303)

> 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

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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by jschmitz28 on Friday June 29, 2018 @08:30PM (#17428857)

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

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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by 6nf on Friday June 29, 2018 @11:19PM (#17429303)

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.

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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by LoSboccacc on Saturday June 30, 2018 @02:08AM (#17429707)

siri search may also hit "apple mapping services" - the phrasing is a swamp of marketspeak

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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by endianswap on Friday June 29, 2018 @06:47PM (#17428434)

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.

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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by Retric on Saturday June 30, 2018 @08:44AM (#17430681)

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.

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