Google VS Apple | Apple Removed Google Maps And YouTube From iPhone 5

Google and Apple used to be friends of each other have become rivals. Apple launched the new iPhone 5 last week has cut of Google maps and YouTube from the applications.

However, in replacement of Google Maps they put their own faulty iMAP. Many reports were reported against iMAP last week; it is littered with a lot of flaws. Users of iPhone sought to stand in long queues for iPhone 5 despite of faulty iMAP.

An analyst who covers Google and Apple for BGC Partners, Colin Gillis said,

“It’s like two big kinds kicking sand in the sandbox. They are now competing with phones, with maps, with content, with search. They are going head-to-head.”

Scott Rafer, chief executive of Lumatic, which makes city map apps said, "If you own a mobile ecology, as Google does, the other mobile ecology owners are not going to allow you to own tons of data in their world, and so neither Apple nor Amazon were going to let Google know where every one of their users was at every time." Via TimesOfIndia.

It is said that Google Maps earn more than half of its traffic from mobile devices and even in mobile devices more than half from iPhone that is 12.6 million users visiting Google Maps each day. 7.6 million of Google’s Android users are visiting Google Maps each day. So, it is clear that with iPhone 5 Google is going to lose its 15-20 percent of G-Maps traffic, as Google Maps has been removed by Apple iPhone 5.

The removing of Google Maps from iPhone 5 was a decision with reason; however, removal of YouTube App is just the announcement of war against Google because Apple has not added any other video application neither they own any.

The war started when Google launched their Green OS, i.e. Android. Since then the two companies are fighting from patents to maps and videos. With the launch of iPhone 5 Google should not consider itself the only shop in the town. According to Analysts, Google is waiting for the right time to reply Apple back with its applications. They can make their own iPhone app with multiple features and selling ads. However, on older applications it was not possible because Apple controlled it.

Google in the meantime is fighting back. They are encouraging users to use Google Maps on their iPhone’s browser by displaying the instructions to install it. Thus, maintaining the traffic of Google Maps.



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