More than 10 million iOS users sprinted back into the arms of Google Maps the weekend after the new third-party app was released, according to a Google+ post from Jeff Huber, a senior vice president at the company. Though the number accounts for less than 2.5 percent of iPhones sold worldwide, it’s clear that many iOS users were eager to see the return of the mapping service.

Google hinted that it planned to release its own mapping app after getting forced out of the native suite of apps with Apple’s iOS 6. The reaction to Apple’s own mapping app has been, to put it lightly, mixed, and users have been impatient for the return of Google’s app.

Google Maps was finally released early on Friday. At long last, some holdouts could be talked down from their iOS 5 installs and convinced to upgrade. And while the new Google Maps app doesn’t integrate with the OS the way the old one did (and the way Apple’s does), it has already made some customers happy, with an average rating of 4.5 stars over 20,000 evaluations.

According to our own polls, a healthy portion (about a third) of Ars readers will be sticking with Apple's Maps, and many more found their way to new navigation apps in Google Maps' absence: more than half were happy to stick with Google, wherever it may lead them.