Why iOS beats Android
“Fanboy!” I can already hear you shouting, and that’s fine. Anyone who’s followed this site long enough will know that I’m most certainly not a fanboy. Who even really knows what that term means anyway? I like Apple stuff, yes, but I don’t think it’s the be-all and end-all.
Yesterday, the results of a survey were announced that showed iOS’s share in the mobile subscribers market of the US. The survey included all mobile devices, including tablets, phones and MP3 players. This meant iPod Touches, iPads and iPhones were all included. The results were quite enlightening.
It’s impossible to deny that Android is growing massively in popularity. Its market share in the smartphone world is ever increasing and is quite far ahead of iOS. But, if we look at everyone who has any device running either software we see a different story altogether. Comparing all mobile operating systems Apple is ahead, and has a market share 1.6 times larger than Android.
What’s impressive, looking at the table above, is that Apple release only one device in each of the three categories each year. In the MP3 market, the iPod Touch was the only one counted as having iOS installed, the touch screen iPod Nano was not. Sure, there have been 4 iPhones so far, 4 generations of iPod Touch and 2 different iPads. That still is no where near the amount of unique handsets or tablets running Android. This, in my opinion is why no matter what the figures say, iOS will always be regarded as more successful than Android. At least to me.
If you can have a 16.2% share America’s media device market with one OS on 10 unique devices, and your nearest competitor only has 10.2% with over 100 devices, then you’re doing something right. And doing it very well too.
Via: Comscore
Here's the thing. Android is a "good" platform. Not great, but good. But it's competing with the oh'so powerfull iOS. The lagless, super intuitive, easy-to-use iOS. How do you compete with that? Well, Android needed some help. They needed LOTS of help. As a matter of fact, they needed all the help they could get, so what they did was put their OS in the hands of all phone makers by "open sourcing" it. This just means anyone can tweak it and phone makers can add their own skins, ui, and "flavor" if you will. Basically, they realized it would be too difficult to actually come up with a better OS, and phone than Apple. The only way to compete with a powerhouse company like this, is to make an OS with everything the current iOS lacks. What do people want in iOS? Well, with the thousands of jailbreak videos (as well as iPhone Ui and software concepts) on Youtube, deciding what to give the phone wasn't hard. People wanted a better notification system - So Android gave their OS that.People wanted complete customization, and variation (between models) - So Android open sourced it, and gave phone makers the ability to both use the OS in their phone's, as well as the ability to tweak the OS and give it a customized experience, that might suit the users needs better in different ways. Now, we have many different phones to choose from, as well as many different looks/styles of the Android platform. People wanted flash - got it. People wanted something new - And there was Android. Granted the OS slows down, lags, and doesn't work as easily and fluidly as iOS, but people got alot of features that made the phone look cool, and fun to use. We don't need widget's, nor do we "need" the ablility to add different skins/"scenes." But it it's cool. And that's why some people turn to Android when it comes to first impressions. Apple gave us a better, easier to use phone that's simple, yet quietly brilliant (not to steal HTC little motto). Apple, at the moment seems to be falling behind in the competition and "catching up" as some may say, but in actuality they're not (necessarily). Lots of android phone's are coming out with powerful dual cores. Some targeting Apple's A5 chip and even out-clocking it at a crazy 1.2GHZ dual core compared to Apple's 1GHZ dual core. Well, if the software is laggy, and crashes, that dual core processor means nothing. NOTHING! There are dual core phone's out there that are much, much "laggier" than iPhone 4, with it's single'core processor. Wghy is this? Because apple actually takes it's time (about a year usually) and creates the ultimate phone for the time of it's release. Making use of every little pixel. and every ounce of processing power, and battery life, to give you a phone that not only performs exceptionally well. For as long as you have it. But gives you more than you might even need. For instance, the 5-megapixel camera in iPhone 4 has lower specs than some of the android 8-megapixel camera's but which takes better pictures? WEll that would be iPhone of course thanks to it's larger pixels and HDR software that blows all mobile phone camera's out of the waters. This comment is LONG ENOUGH. Lol, sorry! But, there you have it people. To sum it all up.  Android give's you specs, choices, and customization. Apple gives you... A better phone.Â
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