iOS or Android? Which one outshines the other and why? This is the most hyped up debate prevailing within the wireless industry today. Undeniably, both iOS and Android are grand mobile platforms. They both tend to have quite a room for improvement and different takes on what matters to the consumers. However, there are separate clusters of people who feel one surpasses the other. Now without creating ruckus, let us find out the meaningful differences between prominent features of iOS7 and Android by paying attention to informative factual data that will rationally assist you in deciding which one weighs higher.
Interface: Touch interfaces are a common thing between both iOS and Android with features like swiping, tapping and pinch-and-zoom. iOS and Android when rebooted, show up the homescreen just like the computer desktop. An Android lets you use widgets that display auto-updating information such as weather and email while the iOS homescreen only contains rows of app icons. Yet, the iOS user interface features a doc where users are allowed to pin their regularly used applications.
User experience: Now this count majorly, hence a factual data will direct us better. According to Pfeiffer Report released in September 2013 iOS rates significantly better than Android on cognitive load and user friction. The report reveals that iOS 7 rates as high as 73.25, iOS 6 is rated at 70 followed by Android (Samsung) at 57.25.
Apps available on iOS v/s Android: If we compare the quantity of the apps on both the platforms they end up being same and equally impressive. Currently both the operating systems claim to have more than 800,000 third-party programs for their respective platform. This suggests iPhone app development and Android app development are prospering at a fast pace in their respective operating systems. The next question arises is who serves better apps? This is a bit tricky one as app quality is inherently subjective. However, in data published in a readwrite story in January, it said that the average iOS app, with a score of 68.5, is superior to the average Android app, at 63.3.
Software upgrades: Even though Google claims to update Android frequently, it may have happened that users might not have received the updates on their phones. The phone manufacturers decide whether and when to offer software upgrades. Even when an upgrade is offered, it happens to be generally after several months after the release of the new version of Android. On the other hand, iOS users have an advantage as the updates are usually available to all iOS devices excluding exceptional devices older than three years.
Platform selling maximum smartphones: According to a research carried out by Kantar Worldpanel Comtech during mid- November to mid- February shows Android phones outshining the iPhone by a hefty margin of 52.1 percent to 43.5 percent.
Web Browsing: While android uses Google Chrome as its web-browser, iOS uses safari. Both Internet browsers are alike in quality and abilities and while Google Chrome is also available for iOS, Safari is not available for Android. The monthly stats published by NetMarketShare on which browsers and operating systems are being used on the Net has given a report for March 2013 which says that among mobile devices, iOS rules with 60.1 percent share. While, Android lands at 24.9 percent. Considering that there are more Android devices out there, the data denotes that iOS users are excessively active online.
Security: This factor holds a lot of importance at the user-end. The Android applications are inaccessible from the rest of the system’s resources, unless a user specifically grants an application access to other features. However, for Android there exists a much extensive malware where text messages are sent to premium rate numbers without the knowledge of the user. While for iOS malware writers are less likely to write apps, due to Apple's review of all the apps and verification of the identity of app publishers.
To conclude every individual of course, are entitled to come to a different conclusion according to their personal experience and choices. The truth is both OS have their own pros and cons and each OS tends to outshine the other on different factors, which still leads the debate further.
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