iPhone just might be the best thing that has ever happened to Google Maps -– it has made them popular like never before and has driven the usage substantially. This information comes courtesy of Marissa Mayer, Google’s (GOOG) vice president of search products & user experience.
She was a fellow judge at the TechCrunch 40 conference in San Francisco and came on The GigaOM Show as a guest for one of our future episodes.
She said that Google Maps usage shot up sharply after the release of Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone back in July. “Maps usage hasn’t stopped rising,” she said during our conversation. Steve Jobs had bragged about Google Maps for iPhone as the best map application, and the usage patterns bear that out.
How about YouTube, which is getting heavy promotion on television as part of Apple’s ad campaign? Meyer said YouTube on iPhone has not caused any major upsurge in video viewing. No surprise there. I’ve watched YouTube on my iPhone maybe once or twice. Most of the time when you want to watch videos you are stuck with a pokey EDGE connection –- and who needs that?
The lesson for other video aspirants: Make sure your applications run on 3G networks, otherwise people won’t care two bits.
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8:13 PM PT
I don’t have an iPhone but I love gmaps on my TMO 8700g blackberry. it is the ultimate road trip device and great if you drive around for work a lot and need a map for the next stop. Ohh, plus traffic updates is awesome for beating the LA traffic.
10:20 PM PT
Marissa Mayer证实iPhone令Google Maps流量大增 YouTube表现平平
自从今年1月Steve Jobs正式宣布iPhone开始，Google Maps就已经是iPhone的重头戏之一了。在此后的半年时间里，Steve Jobs个人及Apple都多次在广告及各种公开场合称赞iPhone版Google Maps是最好的地图…
10:58 PM PT
iPhone Drives Google Maps Usage, YouTube Lags
iPhone just might be the best thing that has ever happened to Google Maps - it has made them popular like never before and has driven the usage substantially. This information comes courtesy of Marissa Mayer, Googles vice president of search products…
12:56 AM PT
“The lesson for other video aspirants: Make sure your applications run on 3G networks, otherwise people won’t care two bits.”
EDGE isn’t 3G, it’s 2.5G…
1:20 AM PT
[...] gigaom.com tags:google iphone youtube [...]
5:47 AM PT
[...] iPhone continues to drive Google Maps Usage - (Marissa Mayer) said that Google Maps usage shot up sharply after the release of Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone back in July. “Maps usage hasn’t stopped rising,” she said during our conversation.. according to Om Malik at the techcrunch 40 conference. [...]
7:17 AM PT
Om,
More than the current usage of Google Maps can be achieved if Apple releases a GPS driven integration with Google maps (via Bluetooth). Windows live already does this on WM device, and totally removes dependency on another GPS device.
-Ravneet
7:24 AM PT
iPhone - Google Maps
Currently Google Maps are working well on iPhone. Much better than Youtube. Om confirms this here.
I have been using Google Maps from day one on iPhone, but there are some missing things, which you would expect on a devoce that is launched in era of…
7:31 AM PT
I just looked up ‘google maps’ on ‘google trends’ and surprisingly United States is No 6 under regions. Am I missing something?
7:55 AM PT
Nice combination from there big products. If Gmaps go cleary on iphone this will be new product of free portable maps everywhere with inet access.
9:44 AM PT
The problem with youtube on the iphone is the iphone’s batter life. Watching one or two youtube videos kills half your battery
12:18 PM PT
[...] Om Malik reports that Google’s Marissa Mayer is saying Google Maps usage has shot up sharply since the iPhone was released in July, and hasn’t stopped rising. It appears the 1 million-plus iPhone users really like Maps, making it possibly the killer application for the phone. Hopefully Google will take this to heart and put more attention to the versions of Google Maps on other platforms. [...]
5:40 PM PT
[...] iPhone Drives Google Maps Usage, YouTube Lags [GigaOM] “iPhone just might be the best thing that has ever happened to Google Maps -– it has made them popular like never before and has driven the usage substantially. This information comes courtesy of Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of …” (tags: apple google iphone googlemaps convergence) [...]
8:01 AM PT
Google Maps works on my Cingular 8125. The only downside is it’s slow on the Edge network and when traveling you’re more likely to want to use it when you’re lost in a place with no data service. So on a WM phone with GPS it would be great, but on the technologically handicapped iphone it would be useless half the time.
11:31 AM PT
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3:29 PM PT
[...] would appear Google owes Steve Jobs a round of beers. According to GigaOm, the iPhone has boosted the popularity of Google Maps like never before.While she didn’t give [...]
4:10 PM PT
“More than the current usage of Google Maps can be achieved if Apple releases a GPS driven integration with Google map”
I’m a runner; I’d love to integrate an iPhone with the Gmap pedometer (which calculates distance for a route you specify).
12:00 PM PT
The hold back for me on YouTube is that I hate the search. You can’t tell what date shows are published with out looking at the details page and there is no way to sort the results.
There is also no way to subscribe, or sync your desktop user profile with the phone app.
I’d rather grab video podcaste and watch those.
8:14 AM PT
[...] 30 days the total share of traffic coming to their network from iPhone doubled from 0.4% to 0.8%. Google Maps usage went up after introduction of iPhone. Next year a whole slew of devices are coming to market that might make Rethink Research, rethink [...]
9:47 AM PT
[...] had previously told us that the iPhone was not a significant source of traffic to YouTube, though the device had given [...]
1:02 PM PT
[...] reader Sebastien notes in the comments, the iPhone is also driving mobile Google Maps usage as was previously reported by GigaOM back in [...]
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