Google Maps for iOS, a lot of people have downloaded
it. Google released that the Google Maps
software was downloaded more than 10 million times in the first two days on the
App Store only. Google’s application
rapidly seized the first position of the most downloaded free applications. The release of the software took everybody by
surprise because the first news about its arrival appeared only a few hours
before it went live.
Jeff Hubber, the Senior Vice President of Google’s Commerce
& Local, wrote that the company is very excited about the high number of
people who downloaded the software, and also he’s grateful for the hard work
that the Maps team poured into it.
The Google Maps application comes with some features that
user no longer found in the standard maps software. Apart from the classic public transit
directions and the Street View technology, the applications also brings several
new functions like the vector-based map tiles and spoken turn-by-turn driving
directions.
Apple stated that over 200 million Apple customers were
running iOS 6 in October to highlight the 10 million downloads so far, which
represent about half of the iOS devices sold until that date. The users that
have their devices running on iOS 5 and below still have the mapping software
developed by Apple which uses data from Google. Neither Google nor Apple have specified for
how long that functionality will go on.