I tried the new Google app for driving for the first time yesterday. I have my phone set up for Bluetooth in my car. The Google app actually took over my radio and the voice prompts came through the radio. This doesn't happen with Apple maps or with Waze. Actually, I found it quite annoying. I would prefer the sound just goes through the phone speaker and not cut out my radio. There might be a setting for me to change this, but I haven't looked for it yet.
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Originally Posted by Russic
Despite many claiming to be holding off on upgrading to iOS6 because of the mapping issues, the release of Google Maps has only increased iOS6 adoption 0.17% (from 72.77% to only 72.94%). As the article states, could have also been because people knew Google Maps was coming, but I'm still surprised by those numbers.
http://www.cultofmac.com/206196/goog...at-all-report/ |
Although I am sure there were people holding out on the update because of the change to maps, I just can't seeing it being a meaningful number I would guess no more than 1-2% of users. I would wager that a large number of iOS users fall into one of two categories: automatically update whenever prompted or pretty much never update (generally those who don't connect it to iTunes often).
The Apple maps app definitely has its deficiencies, but I doubt that there are many people that would hold off upgrading given that the Google web app was decent. I personally found the combination of these two better than the old Google map app. And now that Google has an app again, that is even more true.