![]() Verto’s figures may have also been used in the February 2020 Washington Post article “ Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking”, though the source of the Post’s figures isn’t named: With some 80 percent market share in mobile maps and over a billion users, Google Maps has an outsize impact on people’s perception of the world. But we don’t really know how many more.įor example, if Apple Maps has 900 million users and Google Maps has 1.2 billion, then Google has only 33% more users than Apple: ![]() So all of this tells us that Google Maps has more users than Apple Maps. (If Apple Maps had a billion users-or close to it-Apple likely would’ve just said so, instead of saying “hundreds of millions”.) From this, we can infer that Apple Maps has at least 200 million users and at most around 900–950 million users. Apple, meanwhile, told us as recently as December 2020 that Apple Maps has “ hundreds of millions” of users.So we’ll assume that Google Maps currently has somewhere between one and two billion monthly users. If Google Maps had since surpassed two billion users, Google likely would’ve said so.And in the time since, Google has repeatedly stated that Google Maps has “more than a billion users” (even during the middle of the pandemic)-without providing more specific or updated figures. By no later than 2015, however, Google Maps was back at 1 billion users.mobile userbase and roughly 300 million iOS users globally. ![]() Later that year, Apple replaced Google Maps with Apple Maps on iOS-causing Google Maps to lose an estimated 28.4% of its U.S.
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