Following its extremely inauspicious launch, which noticed heads roll in Cupertino all these years in the past, it felt like Apple Maps had blown its probability of being a severe contender to the Google Maps juggernaut proper out of the gate.
Nevertheless, one report suggests the tide could lastly be turning and that there are actually causes to select Apple’s steadily-improving mapping answer over Google’s greater than a decade after it arrived on the scene. “Individuals Have Begun to Love Apple’s Most Hated Product,” reads a Wall Avenue Journal headline on Tuesday. Attention-grabbing.
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The article – which does comprise numerous anecdotal tales fairly than laborious proof Apple Maps is coming into a interval of ascendency – suggests iPhone customers have been gained over by Apple Maps’ clear public transit instructions and fewer cluttered design.
Certainly, one consumer instructed the WSJ she was gained over by Apple Maps due to how a lot simpler it’s to see avenue names, for instance.
“It made me form of revisit and rethink a few of my prior assumptions about it,” Jane Natoli, a self professed Google Maps energy consumer says. “No matter preliminary reputational hurdles that Apple Maps confronted, I feel they’ve jumped over these.”
“Google is displaying me eating places, bars and different issues, however I’m not essentially searching for that.”
One other consumer, New Yorker Jason Rabinowitz, calls Google Maps public transit layer “sinfully ugly to have a look at”. He prefers Apple Maps as a result of he believes it presents inventive, quicker routes, and is extra useful when the subway system goes down.
Whereas folks could also be discovering causes to make use of Apple Maps, the report additionally cites information claiming most US iPhone customers have Google Maps put in on their units, regardless of Apple Maps coming pre-installed.
So, till that development is reversed, we’ve got to imagine there’s nonetheless an awesome need to make use of Google Maps regardless of Apple Maps’ enhancements. Nevertheless, Maps is about to get even higher in iOS 17 with Apple enabling maps to be downloaded for offline use. Who is aware of? Possibly at some point Android customers would be the ones downloading Apple Maps?