A good portion of iPad owners have already updated Apple's new operating system for iDevices to iOS 6. The update has been distributed by OTA (Over the Air) at record speed for a new operating system. The thing is, this update came with the Apple Maps app from which everyone expected a great performance and turned out to be a fiasco. We present the debate of whether people are using the application despite it or not.
It is clear that there was not enough time for people to rethink updating to iOS 6 despite the fact that the poor Maps performance it was reported and picked up in the news by the specialized media from the first moment. There had been a lot of talk about iOS 6, which is a great operating system despite this flaw. However the OTA update method is so simple and convenient, it is downloaded directly from the device, which as usual nobody looks at the derived problems until they have them. Thus, only 48 hours after its launch, 25% of the Apple devices that could receive the update already had iOS 6. But the figure continued to increase, especially on the iPhone, reaching 61% of users. With slightly lower figures, a 45% of iPad users have updated to iOS 6.
Parallel to this news, the rumor guru about Apple, John Gruber, raised a debate two days ago on how many people have stopped using Apple Maps since its inception. Using information gleaned from Snappli, a company that analyzes the data streams of your mobile phone or tablet, it was learned that the volume of data that passed through the map service before iOS 6 was much higher than after iOS 6. Snappli claims , revealing private data of its users but what are we going to do, that in iOS 5 1 in 4 users used Google Maps once a day. Now only 1 in 25 uses Apple Maps.
There have been many people who accepted the data of Snappli, in fact, our experience tells us that it is. However, Gruber gives the counterpart explaining that this data download can be seen to the different technology they use. Google Maps for iOS used bitmaps that made images download to devices every time we zoomed in, scrolled or navigated them. However, Apple Maps uses vector graphics that are pure data and therefore to resize the image that it offers they do not need to download additional data but only read it in another way. In fact, that explains that you can view previously loaded maps offline and zoom in on them. It seems that this technology reduces data waste by 80% and that is why Google Maps for Android and Nokia Maps use vector graphics.
We would like to hear about your experience as an iOS 6 user. Do you use Apple Maps?
Sources: padgadget / Daring Fireball