Google Maps is one of the products Apple fanboys will never touch, it’s just so damn good! The app has reached one billion downloads on Android. This follows the recent one billion download of Gmail.
Note: the total number of downloads is a tally of the accounts that have downloaded the app. Repeated downloads on the same account, even on multiple devices, are only counted as 1 download. That means there have been more than 1 billion Google accounts that have downloaded the Maps app at least once.
The app was the first to hit the 50 million downloads back in 2011. And it’s growth has never ceased. From speech recognition and turn-by-turn navigation, it’s only slightly less annoying that your car’s GPS, but we have to admit that it’s a great app. In fact, it’s experienced an array of changes ever since it came to life on early Android phones. When the app first launched, it offered little more than mapping between two points and very limited navigation. But now it offers walking directions and transit schedules, displays scaled 3D maps, gave us indoor navigation and mall maps, flight search, and even warns us about accidents in real-time.
We hope there’s another update for this great app at this years Google I/O.