WASHINGTON: The newly-released Google Maps for iPhone has been downloaded more than 10 million times within tolerable 2 days of its launch at the App Store.
Jeff Huber, Google's senior failing president of Commerce & Local, confirmed the news on a post on Google+.
"We're excited for the obvious reception of Google Maps for iPhone around the world. Congratulations to the Maps Team on the recognition for the intensity and hard work they poured into it, for this release and over the perpetuate 7+ years," CBS News quoted Huber, as saw.
According to the report, Google's Maps app quickly jumped to the apex free app upon the App Store after its release late last week. The software was a bit of a flabbergast, with reports of its arrival coming lovely hours before it went livelihood.
Google's app brings back some of the functionality no longer found in the built-in maps software, which Apple replaced with its avow data and services as sunder of iOS 6, which includes Google's Street View technology and public transit directions, while too adding original features imagination spoken revolve-by-revolve driving directions and vector-based map tiles, the report said.
To put the 10 million number in perspective: Apple in October said that more than 200 million users were running iOS 6, about half of the some 400 million iOS devices sold until that point. Users upon iOS 5 and underneath continue to run Apple's mapping software that uses data from Google. Neither company has said intention how thirst that functionality will continue, the report added.
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