Aquila
Retired Moderator
Also, popular doesn't always mean good. The most popular musicians right now are One Direction and Justin Bieber.
True.
No way I'd start in designing for Android. Have you seen how awful their developer tools are?
lol, I hope this was sarcasm.
How is Google Maps awful exactly?
I honestly don't use the Android app that much, but Google Maps on the desktop is peerless. There's nothing even in the realm of competition yet. I currently have 40 truck (semi) drivers that report under me and we use Qualcomm in most of the trucks (program called NAVIGO, it is HORRIBLE), which makes my team of dispatchers heavily reliant on services like mapquest, PC Miler, etc for helping make up for Qualcomm's deficiencies and Google Maps is the only one that consistently proactively calls out issues with current construction, traffic and gets us on the ground images reliable enough for us to determine if roads, bridges, etc are safe for us to traverse and to be able to quickly identify the signs meant for their business. We send drivers to Kansas City, St Louis, Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay, etc and being able to make live calls on detours is critical. Mapquest, Bing Maps, etc. are absolutely useless in that environment.
As far as the app goes, I occasionally use it to navigate, but I don't have another app to compare it to. I know it's accurate and fast, but would have no idea if there was a better offering for some reason.