{"id":2681,"date":"2012-12-20T03:31:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T03:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2012-12-20T03:41:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T03:41:50","slug":"apple-users-flock-to-ios-6-after-google-maps-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2681","title":{"rendered":"Apple Users Flock to iOS 6 After Google Maps Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2269\" title=\"66\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/66.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"62\" height=\"47\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/12\/19\/ios-6-google-maps-adoption\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mashable.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In line with what was expected, new data has revealed that many iPhone users finally upgraded to iOS 6 when Google Maps finally launched its app week.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, according to mobile ad company\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mopub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoPub<\/a>\u00a0and first reported by\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/12\/18\/google-maps-ios-6\/?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pulsenews\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/em>, iOS 6 adoption grew 29% in the first 5 days after the app launched.<\/p>\n<p>Although Google recently said the new app was downloaded more than\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2685\" data-crackerjax=\"#post-slider\">10 million times in the first 48 hours<\/a>\u00a0after its late Wednesday launch, MoPub numbers show many Apple users waited until the weekend to download the latest version of iOS.<\/p>\n<p>MoPub, which monitors a database of 12,000 apps and more than a dozen ad networks, confirmed with\u00a0<em>Mashable<\/em>\u00a0that the 29% jump in iOS 6 users occurred in the first five days after the app debuted and is attributing this influx to Google Maps. There was also a 13% increase in iOS 6 users between Monday to Wednesday of that week, during the lead up to Google Maps hitting the App Store.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not surprising that many Apple mobile users held back on downloading the software update until then. There has been an immense demand for the return of Google Maps ever since Apple pushed out its new iOS 6 update in September, which replaced the previous Google Maps app with one designed in-house. It had been widely criticized for omitting transit directions, giving poor navigation and displaying incomplete 3D views that distort national monuments, such as the Eiffel Tower. Not to mention the broken roads and satellite views which display nothing but clouds.<\/p>\n<p>Were you among the many that waited to download iOS 6 until the launch of the Google Maps app? Are you glad you waited? Let us know in the comments below.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2425\" title=\"99-670\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/99-670.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"47\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/99-670.png 670w, http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/99-670-300x21.png 300w, http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/99-670-334x23.png 334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2682\" title=\"ios-6-after-google-maps-launch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ios-6-after-google-maps-launch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ios-6-after-google-maps-launch.jpg 950w, http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ios-6-after-google-maps-launch-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ios-6-after-google-maps-launch-334x187.jpg 334w, http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ios-6-after-google-maps-launch-710x399.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/mashable.com\/ In line with what was expected, new data has revealed that many iPhone users finally upgraded to iOS 6 when Google Maps finally launched its app week. In fact, according to mobile ad company\u00a0MoPub\u00a0and first reported by\u00a0TechCrunch, iOS 6 adoption grew 29% in the first 5 days after the app launched. 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