Speaking from the stage at this year’s LeWeb conference in Paris, Marissa Mayer (from Google) stated that “we save two years, every day, of idle time [by] using Google Maps and Navigation.”
That’s a hefty claim, and it’s almost difficult to believe, until we look at the mass amount of integration for both services. Google Maps is not only on Android phones, but also heavily integrated with iOS. It is still a desktop-accessible product, as well, even though mobile use surpassed the desktop in June of this year according to Mayer.
Of course we have to look at the ubiquity of Navigation on Android devices, too. Recent numbers, also discussed at LeWeb, say that there are over 200 million Android phones that have been activated. Every single one of them includes (or at least has access to) Google’s Navigation app.
