[daniel_iversen]

I would say so (that and the smartphone as ppl points out) - they announced subscription service around 2009-2011 from what I can see online and we can see the interest falling drastically since:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=tomtom

.. that's also when I stopped using them I think, and what's interesting is that once you get into the habit of using a new map+navigation service it seems quite hard to switch or is that just me? (I want to try Apple because I like them more than Google but I'm just so used to Google Maps)

[chipotle_coyote]

> once you get into the habit of using a new map+navigation service it seems quite hard to switch or is that just me?

I don't think it's just you. :) I know a fair number of iOS users who switched to the standalone Google Maps app during the, shall we say, rocky first year of Apple Maps, and who I've never been able to convince to look back -- and these are people who live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Apple Maps is arguably at its best.

[DonHopkins]

Silicon Valley - "It's Apple Maps bad"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVq1wgIN62E

[devilbunny]

Give Apple Maps a shot in an area you know well. In my experience, GMaps is better in terms of knowing what's around you and the traffic - but AMaps gives much more easily-followed directions and doesn't do silly routes to save five seconds' time.