As soon as Apple made Google Maps available on its App store thousands of users started downloading it and the number has reached to more than 10 million times within just 2 days of its launch.
Jeff Huber, Google's Senior vice president of Commerce and Local, posted on Google+ "We're excited for the positive reception of Google Maps for iPhone around the world. Congratulations to the Maps Team on the recognition for the passion and hard work they poured into it, for this release and over the last 7+ years".
According to a report, Google's Maps app quickly jumped to the top free app on the App Store after its release late last week.
Google Maps release was sudden and reports of its arrival came just hours before it went live.
Google's app brings back some of the functionality no longer found in the built-in maps software, which Apple replaced with its own data and services as part of iOS 6, which includes Google's Street View technology and public transit directions, while also adding new features like spoken turn-by-turn driving directions and vector-based map tiles, the report said.
Apple in October said that more than 200 million users were running iOS 6, about half of the some 400 million iOS devices sold until that point.
(with inputs from ANI)
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