After many, many years depending on Google Maps for quite a few key applications on both iOS and OS X, we could now say that Apple is almost entirely independent navigation services of the competition. Until today, the Cupertino company has seen reduced use of Google Maps from the iCloud.com website specifically for its Find My iPhone service, but this has changed.
Recall that in the middle of the year Apple already launched Apple Maps to be tested by iCloud.com beta participants, but now it seems that has also been extended to stable service as a whole although for now only to Find my iPhone. As I mentioned, Google Maps can still be found associated with some store listings on Apple's website to determine their location, but even that should disappear in the coming months in favor of the company's own service.
Although at first this mapping service from Apple was a failure due to its multiple errors, the Maps application has been evolving for a long way since its highly criticized launch back in 2012, in which it was presented with a multitude of bugs, very poor directional indications, incorrectly placed monuments ... The most famous incident was the one in which this service instructed a driver in Alaska to drive through from a runway at Fairbanks airport in order to get to the terminal.
Things have improved (and a lot) since then, and it is that since that fateful day the Maps service has received countless improvements in order to position itself as the main application within the Apple ecosystem, which evidently has helped to gain 80 percent of the web traffic previously occupied by Google Maps on iOS. Of course, it has been reported that Maps continues to receive improvements both in the application's own performance and in the locations and possibility of interaction with the user, according to different reports.
For me still it has not even reached the level of "excellence" that Google Maps has, but it is no less true that its progress has been positive and evolves rapidly although it still does not have the full confidence of users that Google Maps has harvested in all these years.
