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.

1. Take a comprehensive look on who's leading the
phone market iOS or Android?
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 pinch­and­zoom. iOS and Android when rebooted,
show up the homescreen just like the computer desktop. An Android lets you use
widgets that display auto­updating 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

2. the platforms they end up being same and equally impressive. Currently both the
operating systems claim to have more than 800,000 third­party 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 web­browser, 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 user­end. 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.