It is now
a tradition, a day without an article concerning Plans is almost like a
iPhone without an apple... It's inconceivable.
So it is not today that we are going to break this tradition
emerging since the subject of this article is indeed Plans and for once
This is rather positive news that I have to offer you. I have a good
surprise to announce to you too.
It's thanks to the creators of the Onavo application,
tested here,data transfer specialists we learn that,
on this point Maps version iOS 6 is much better than Google Maps
:
Onavo is a very useful data compression service so as not to
exceed its "fair use", we
talked about it in this article last year.
The app is therefore very well placed to know what Internet users
use as data (everything goes through it for compression and caching)
and the editor thus measured thatApple plans use 80% of data in
less than Google Maps(from iOS 5). So, for a simple action like
zooming in and zooming out we go from 1.3MB for Google compared to 271 KB
for Apple.
This saving is due to the fact that Apple's cards are
vectori.e. the image resizes dynamically
when the user interacts instead of re-downloading the songs
of maps each time like Google Maps does.
As a direct consequence of this, Apple's version is faster even if
it still lacks precision.For Onavo, 70% of users
of iPhone are also users of Plans which would represent no less than 5% of the
mobile traffic.We thus understand the impact of the new version of
plan and the importance that this change took and the disappointments sinceiOS 6.
Let's end now with the surprise promised above, which comes to us all
right from Google. Indeed, since iOS 6, Street View has completely
disappeared from our iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.According to Walt Mosberg, it is
via the web that this popular feature should return and good
news, if all goes well this return will happen tomorrow.
To be continued!
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