Facebook beats Google Maps

Last year the social network Mark Zuckerberg rocketed as the application most used mobile in the U.S., thus ousting Google Maps, according to the latest ranking conducted by comScore Mobile Metrix. As explained in a press release, the decision by Apple to block Google Maps on iOS devices 6 ( released last month ) had a great impact on these figures and made ​​the podium leave your application. In September, the social network app was just a few points of Google Maps, as measured by ComScore,  but rose progressively in the next few months and ended up reaching a total of 85.5 million monthly unique users in December. Curve using Google Maps dropped dramatically in October-month began blocking Apple-, grew very timid in the following months and in December had ten million users unless Facebook. ComScore points out that while Google Maps dropped, Google generally maintains a strong position in the Android market  with five of the top six ranking applications,which include Google Maps, Google Play, Google search, Gmail and Youtube.