Facebook removed Google Maps from the top American applications

The application of the social networking site Facebook removed Google Maps from the top applications used by smart phone users in America .

According to statistical by comSCORE Foundation , the number of users for Facebook application exceeded the number of users of Google Maps since September to December 2012.

The statistical that the number of visitors who have to enter a freelance via Facebook Application for mobile phone in December reached about 85,000,574 thousand visitors from out of more than one billion active users of social networking site, with the number of users of the application Google Maps for less than 75 million users .

The primary reason for the decline in the number of users of Google Maps on phones to Apple's abandonment of Google Maps in version 6 of the operating system iOS.

The Apple has abandoned support application Khrit Google operating system iOS 6 launched in conjunction with the iPhone 5, where the company decided to America to provide a special application by the maps did not admired a lot of users because of the number of errors, which summoned Director Alnive to Apple, Tim Cook to formally apologize , and before you start to ask for that application updates again.

It is expected to increase the number of users for Google Maps again after the company introduced a copy of the application for the sixth version of the iOS system , which is the version that was welcomed by users of iPhone, iPad frequently soon as it became available on the App Store.

Returning to the statistical comSCORE Google Inc. account for the largest proportion of the most widely used applications by the Americans, where statistics showed that it owns four of the top five applications used in the United States.

The order comes most frequently used applications on the phones in the United States, according to statistics comSCORE as follows:

- Facebook (85.574 visitors)

- Google Maps (74.631 visitors)

- Google Bly (61.461 visitors)

- Google Search (60.587 visitors)

- Gmail (53.934 visitors)

- YouTube (52.572 visitors)

- Pandora Radio (48.023 visitors)

- Apple iTunes (45.884 visitors)

- Cooliris (42.927 visitors)

- Yahoo! Messenger (36.124 visitors)

The statistical comSCORE also pointed out that the Facebook application is more applications that spend phone users in the United States and their time, so spend it minute of every three minutes, using the applications installed on their phone.