According to foreign media reports, Jeff Huber, senior vice president of Google's Commerce & local business department, published a message through the company's social network Google + this morning, on the first two days of logging onto the app store of the Apple App Store, the Google Maps app for iOS downloaded more than 10 million times.
"We are excited about the global popularity of Google Maps for iOS, and congratulate the map business team on their application in the new version and their efforts over the past seven years."
After last weekend's release, Google Maps quickly became the largest App Store free app in downloads. The release of Google Maps for iOS was quite surprising. It was only a few hours before the official release that the news was reported by the media.
Google Maps for iOS released 10 million downloads in the first two World
Google map for iOS restores some features that are no longer provided by the built-in version, including Google's street view technology and bus lines. Google map for iOS also adds some new features, such as voice turns.
Apple said in March that more than 0.2 billion users run iOS 6, accounting for about half of the total shipments of iOS devices (about 0.4 billion. Users running IOS 5 and earlier versions still run the apple map software using Google data. Google or apple did not disclose when the two sides will suspend cooperation in this regard.