Android Vs iPhone

            Android Vs iPhone       

 

Apple had the largest share of market of smart phones until android became open source and major companies like Samsung started launching its products as a competitor to iphone.  Android has since dismantled iphone from its top ranking and is growing exponentially every quarter, as for the second quarter of 2012 iOS accounted for 18.8 percent of global Smartphone operating system market whereas Android shot up to a massive 64.1 percent of Smartphone operating system market share in the period.  Following are some points regarding the same.

·       Open Source Vs Propriety

                  

Andriod backed by Google,  is an open source platform where as iOS developed by Apple is closed and propriety.  While being open source means having advantage of fast development and bug fixes but it also means that independent developers tweak it according to needs. Thus there is no standardization.

IOs on the other hand are thoroughly beta tested and bug-fixed before coming to market. Thus such systems have few bugs and it is tailored to hardware specifications thereby running smoothly.

·        Price range and hardware specifications

                 

While android phones and tablets have prices starting from low end range to high range and thus reaching a larger market whereas iphone has fixed prices and thus limiting its reach. Though android phones do so by compromising the hardware specs which are sometimes bare minimal but iphone maintains the same hardware as their platforms are hardware tailored.

·        Features and design

               

Android is open to be marketed by any company.  Thus it comes in many designs, screen sizes and resolutions. So, people obviously have many choices according to their budget, but iOs are marketed by apple solely for their products makings the choices limited.  But apple overcomes this hurdle by having elegant design.  Android phones have many features like Bluetooth which iphone lacks moreover iphone lacks widget feature which android systems support which adds to music and social networking experience.

·        Apps and games

             

Apple has the largest online appstore  but Google’s  app store  is also catching up fast with most of  popular iphone games like Doodle jump, Fruit Ninja, Air Control etc. are already being ported to Android . Gaming giants like EA Sports is already developing their major game like NFS Shift to Android.  Gaming experience though is better on iphone which has far better touch screen response  but  Android  is not very behind with the version 4 coming out which is said to have excellent response.

     ·        Carrier choices And network providers

                            

Iphone usually is locked to networks and hence you have limited choices whereas android phones have no such issue as getting a micro-sim .  Android phones have different manufactures and are rarely network locked thereby giving its user freedom of choosing any network of his choice.

·        Connectivity and other features

             

The iphone lacks Bluetooth which has been major obstacle for people  sharing media and pictures, this has been done in order to reduce piracy but  Android beats apple in this feature.  Both can be connected through Wi-Fi and 3g. The iphone also lacks the support for Flash which is supported by inbuilt browsers in Android thus viewing flash websites on iPhone is not possible.

·        Conclusion

Though Android’s market share has been increasing tremendously but it is still lags to iPhone in high end smart phone market. While android gives you power of open source iphone still remains  a choice of its own class due its elegance...