Apple offers apps on iOS
of its vintage dedicated to specific functions. These are the classic mail,
Notes, safari, podcasts, etc. While some are rather well done,
The interest of the App Store is that it is possible to go and see elsewhere and to
Choose the app that sticks to your preferences.
On the side of cartography, Apple thus offersPlansinstalled by default on iOS, but
l’alternativeGoogle MapsWho
has been used by Apple for many years is also widely used
on mobile, when other third -party applications offer features
appreciated, as
Wazeand its exemplary reactivity thanks to a faithful community.
To make an inventory, we have offered you a surveyAll
recently. It's time to reveal and analyze your preferences.
While the apple firm continues to improve the content of
the house application, for example with more and more places covered in fly
Over, at the same time Google Maps adds functions on functions and becomes
more and more complete.
This is why we asked you the following question:
Which mapping solution do you use the most on iPhone?
Google Maps, Apple Plans or another?
The results
On nearly 4,000 participants, you aremore than 52 % preferred
Google Maps.
Thus, this score remains very similar to the last figure of 2013, obtained
During a survey on the same subjectand for which Google Maprs
would recover 53 % of the votes (out of 4,300 votes in total).
For this year's survey, we added a 3rd possible answer,
allowing to share appetite for another application. It didn't have
the effect of lowering the Google Maps score, it is indeed
Apple Planswho makes the price and is 37 %, then
that alternative solutions recover approximately 10 % of the votes.
Once again,Google Maps wins the victory in its duel
With Apple Plans, on iOS.
Important details!
Your comments have allowed us to see a little further
that these simple figures. You are a lot to have specified why you
Prefer Google Maps to Apple Plans. We find among the reasons mentioned, the
much more practical informationprovided in the app
Google mapping on real -time traffic, but also for
Bike routes, that Google Maps has recently offered and
which remain absent from the side of Apple Plans.
Some greet thereactivityof the Mountain View giant in
In terms ofUpdate of cards after reassembled alerts
by users, we feel the influence of Waze on this side, the app
and its datanow belonging to
Google).
About Waze precisely, it isA third party application that is
also regularly cited as an alternative of choice in the face of both
mastodones, it is true that its community side can be very
practical for people often on the road to be aware of the last
events that take place in the areas of its itinerary.
But this choice also shows that the question on the choice of the solution
cartography had also changed inchoice of solution
guidancefor some. This is not surprising now that the apps
De Google and Apple incorporate GPS navigation. We are then not surprised
that some regulars of navigation thus mention the apps as
Tom Tom Goet
Navigon, who are navigation assistance specialists to
the automobile, with cards usable offline
Except that Google Maps offers the card download function from
Some time too, it is also praised by a few comments, everything
like the app
maps.me, another third navigation application that integrates this
basic functionality.
In favor of Apple Plans, some prefer its design to him, when others
appreciate its natural integration in iOS, with an immediate opening of
the app when you click on an address in contacts or ask for a
path to Siri.
In the end, it would seem that for many, thesolution ultime
remains to have different navigation apps on its iPhoneet
to juggle them according to the situation. For a bicycle journey, we will
Prefer to open Google Maps, for a quick overcrowding of the contact of a contact,
We will let plans manage the case, while Waze will allow you to be up to date,
Almost per minute, from the state of traffic on its journey.
The fact remains that for the moment, and according to your many returns, Google
Maps remains the number 1 mapping app on iOS.
Thank you all for participating in the survey and for specifying your
Answers in comment, which is always very useful to us. Go to
next Iphon.fr survey, on the internet or via the app
iPhoneor
iPadorThe blog.
And for the many users of Google Maps, do not miss our
dossier :16 practical tips
To master Google Maps on iPhone and iPad.
Editor -in -chief for Iphon.fr. Pierre is such Indiana Jones, looking for the lost iOS tip. Also long -standing Mac user, Apple devices have in short, no secrets. Contact: Pierre [a] Iphon.fr.
