Apple Maps dominate Google Maps in iOS, and the Apple company provided some extremely interesting details in the framework WWDC 2015 regarding the difference in usage between the two mapping services used by billions of people on the planet.
Last Monday, Apple stated that Apple Maps registers 5 billion requests for providing information, 3.5 times more than the closest competing platform, i.e. Google Maps, the difference being very large.
In practice, Google Maps registers in iOS a little over 1.6 billion requests for displaying information, the figure being impressive when viewed "coldly", but compared to that of Apple Maps it is surprisingly small, especially if we take into account the popularity of Google Maps and the problems Apple Maps.
Although the number of requests for information from Google Maps is three times lower than that from Apple Maps, this difference has a fairly logical and easy explanation: Apple Maps is the default location system for Apple products.
Practically, now the applications in the App Store use the Apple Maps APIs in the largest majority, to the detriment of Google Maps, the same being true in the case of applications for Macs, and this is where most of the usage comes from.
Separately, there are people who open Apple Maps for locations, points of interest and much more, but this only in a small number of countries around the world, where the Apple service is useful, Romania not being one of those countries.
If we combine everything with the fact that Find My iPhone uses Apple Maps instead of Google Maps for several months, then we have a pretty clear picture of where the difference in using Apple Maps and Google Maps in iOS comes from.
This "achievement" of those from Apple should not be seen as anything more than imposing the use of a certain location service and not a conscious and free choice made by users, so Apple still has a lot to solve.
