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Google’s mobile maps product saw its market share in China decline by close to 50 percent in the third quarter due to Apple switching to its own maps product for its iOS 6 upgrade, according to a Beijing-based research firm — as reported by the “IDG News Service” (http://macte.ch/9St40).

At the end of the third quarter, the company’s market share fell to 9%, making it the sixth largest vendor in China’s mobile maps sector, according to Analysys International. It the previous quarter Google’s market share was 17.5%.

As Windows 8 launches, the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini continue to see long ordering delays, Android exceeds 1M activations a day and RIM prepares BlackBerry 10 for early 2013, the app market is poised for continued growth, says Strategy Analytics (www.strategyanalytics.com)

MacMate (http://www.macmate.me), which launched as an Apple MobileMe replacement, has announced its first major update since June: adding Calendar sharing, an iOS App, introducing two new packages and increasing the storage on its current Pro version to a 25GB.

The changes are designed to offer an alternative for users looking at cloud-disk services like Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft’s SkyDrive services. MacMate Disk costs US$39 per year featuring 5GB of online cloud storage, 1x email with domain support and unlimited calendar hosting.

Google has added a Street View feature to Google Maps on iOS browsers, “allowing iPhone 5 and iOS 6 users to once again experience street-level photography currently unavailable in Apple’s own Maps app,” notes “Forbes” (http://macte.ch/InhoL).

To access Street View, click on the icon at the bottom of a map in Google Maps. the map. Once the image has loaded, it works just like Street View did in Google’s own Maps app on iOS prior to its removal, or Street View in any other web browser, notes “Forbes.”