iOS 6 Adoption Rates Soar Following Google Maps Release

redletterdave writes "The Dec. 12 reinstatement of Google Maps on iOS has apparently been enough for some of those reluctant users to finally make the upgrade to iOS 6. According to MoPub, the San Francisco-based mobile ad exchange that monitors more than 1 billion ad impressions a day and supports more than a dozen ad networks and 12,000 apps, there has been a 29 percent increase in unique iOS 6 users in the past five days following Google Maps' release on iOS. In fact, MoPub reports a 13 percent increase in iOS 6 users from last Monday to Wednesday alone, which would mean that nearly half of the converts to iOS 6 in the past week switched the very moment Google Maps' standalone app hit the App Store."

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Re:Why would Google care?

[mjwx]

Apple just wants to make and sell hardware as well made as they can

This falls apart when you consider that Apple doesn't let you run your own OS on their hardware. They make it as hard as possible to run Windows on a Mac, they've been caught trying to prevent Linux from overtaking the bootloader. You cant run anything except IOS on an Ipod, Ipad or Iphone desipte it being the exact same hardware that runs Android and Windows Phone8/RT.

No, Apple wants you locked into their ecosystem. Why?

Because they make more money from you that way.

there are too many other high quality mapping solutions already (including Apple's own maps).

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha,

Don't give up your day job. When Apple cant even put train stations on train lines, you cant call it quality.