By most reports I'm hearing lately, it's doing quite well, better than Google Maps in a lot of ways. I don't have an iPhone, so I can't vouch for it myself.
You can certainly pick&choose user comments, but aggregate statistics suggest that apple maps have ~10% of the maps market. Although it's not clear what that number would be if they ever released their maps for Android, it's a good indication that they are a distant second at best. Note that this is a _much easier_ problem to solve than search, and they have not been able to dominate it, 11 years after launch, despite their tight control of their platform.
Slight tangent, but I bet apple maps would have a much greater market share if maps.apple.com actually showed something useful. If I go to maps.google.com, I see maps, which is exactly why it's popular.
Do you have a citation for these numbers? I'm not at all sure how one would go about measuring that. I see some sources from 2020 claiming ~10%, but it's not clear to me where they're getting that information, and it's old info.
It’s been better than Google Maps for years for me. Not designed to sell ads (I don’t need to see every McDonald’s on the eastern seaboard) and the directions tended to be safer and more accurate on timing by relying less on dangerous moves like unprotected left turns on major roads.
I prefer these days while it doesn’t have a feature parody with Google maps. It has a much cleaner interface, doesn’t have ads and half the time gives us better search results.
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