was also noticed, and recommended disabled, by editors at CNET and TechCrunch. Additionally, Quartz reported in April 2014 that a "sneaky new privacy change" would have an effect on the majority of iOS users. The privacy change, an update to the Gmail iOS app that "now supports sign-in across Google iOS apps, including Maps, Drive, YouTube and Chrome", meant that Google would be able to identify users' actions across its different apps. The Android version of the app surpassed 5 billion installations in March 2019. By November 2021, the Android app had surpassed 10 billion installations. Go version Google Maps Go, a version of the app designed for lower-end devices, was released in beta in January 2018. By September 2018, the app had over 10 million installations. Artistic and literary uses The German "geo-novel" Senghor on the Rocks (2008) told the story as a series of spreads showing a Google map location on the left and text telling the story on the right. Annika Richterich explains that the "satellite pictures in Senghor on the Rocks illustrate the main character’s travel through the West-African state of Senegal". Artists have used Google StreetView in a range of ways. Emilio Vavarella's The Google Trilogy includes glitchy images and unintended portraits of the drivers of the Street View cars. The Japanese band group inou used Google StreetView backgrounds to make a music video for their song EYE. The US band Arcade Fire made a customized music video that used StreetView to show the viewer their own childhood home. See also Bing Maps Comparison of web map services GeoGuessr Google Maps Road Trip, live-streaming documentary OpenStreetMap Terravision (computer program) Wikiloc, a mashup that shows trails and waypoints on Google Maps Wikimapia, a mashup combining Google Maps and a wiki aimed at "describing the whole planet earth" Yandex Maps, popular in Russia and CIS References External links Official Google Maps blog About Google Maps Google Local Guides Google Maps Platform Alphabet Inc. Android (operating system) software BlackBerry software Danish inventions Maps Maps Transport companies established in 2005 Internet properties established in 2005 Maps Java platform software Keyhole Markup Language Mobile route-planning software Pocket PC software Symbian software Web Map Services Web mapping Windows Mobile Standard software