That’s right, Google’s location service app has been downloaded more than 1 billion times worldwide.
The figure (as at May 28, 2014) accounts for how many times it has been downloaded with unique Google accounts. SO even if it has been downloaded multiple times on different devices, but with the same Google account, it counts as 1 download. That’s right, 1 billion unique Google accounts have downloaded Google Maps. Now that’s impressive, though it is not clear whether preloaded apps are taken into account.
Considering that YouTube also comes pre-loaded but is barely half the number of downloads, it’s probably safe to assume the statistics takes only activations, first updates and fresh installs (especially on custom ROMs) into account.
Gmail already reached 1 billion downloads about a month ago.
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