...Android app Vs Apple app Market: A Design Perspective Pranjal Sutradhar Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati Pre-final year stuent pranjal5026@gmail Abstract: Nowadays there is boom of smart phones, there are more than a billion smartphone users in the world [1]. As of 2013, two-third of Americans own smartphones [2].The key feature of these smart phones are their application support and there operating system on which these application runs. The most common mobile operating systems are Android, iOS, Blackberry and WindowsPhone. This paper provides analysis share of smart phones having different mobile operating systems. 1. Introduction iOS: It’s a mobile operating system used and developed by Apple Inc. It is used to run iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. It was first released in 2007 for iPhone[3]. It is based on the concept of direct manipulationand utilizes a multi-touch interface where simple gestures are used to operate the device, like swiping your finger across the screen to move to the next page or pinching your fingers to zoom out also for rotating in three dimension, respond on shaking or tilting the device internal accelerometers are used applications[4]. It uses framework of OSX such as Core Foundation and Foundation but its UI toolkit is Cocoa Touch instead of AppKit framework. It’s therefore not compatible with OS X for applications.iOS also shares the Darwin foundation with OS X. Its is very restrictive when it comes to their...
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...Android vs iOS The world is at luck having android and iOS being stable and dominion mobile operating systems making them attract the largest number of users. Android is developed by Linux and has its home as google, users can customize almost all the basic features making it more user friendly .On the other hand, iOS is developed from UNIX and is owned by Apple cooperation. Android has the largest share in the world among majority smartphone platforms and other forms. Has widgets, increasing clients’ desire on the operating system. Google chrome is the default browser in android when it comes to internet access, however, other browsers such as opera mini and Mozilla firefox.Android is independent on the device it is being runon. Mostly found in devices such as Sony, Huawei and Samsung in different versions like gingerbread and lollipop. Mostfeatures cannot be customized by user .IOS is also independent on the device it is being run on. IOS kernel is usually not open source and thus difficult to root a phone running on iOS. Different versions are available such as iOS5.0 and iOS 7.1Available in devices such as ipones, ipads and ipads .IOS has no widgets but a dock where most frequently applications are used.IOS is available in 34 languages unlike androids 32 languages. Mobile safari is the default browser for the iOS.Third party browsers are available in the apple app store due to differing users taste. In a nutshell, both iOS and android are quality operating systems and...
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...iOS vs android Before we go on with the comparison of android and iOS, we must know what these two words, that have so much importance in today's world, really are. Android and iOS are two different mobile operating system, the former is from Google Inc. and the latter is developed by Apple Inc. iOS was first released in 2007 and Android in 2008. Both thee operating systems have many differences the basic one being that these are programmed in different languages. Android is programmed in C, C++ and Java, whereas, iOS is programmed in C, C++, Objective-C. Available languages in an Android are 32, and in iOS the number is a little higher i.e. 34. Both of theses two have their own browsers, internet messaging, video chat, maps, voice commands facility, however , where Android seems to be running on different smart phones and is indeed the most popular mobile operating system today, iOS runs only on Apple products. FaceTime, Safari browser, and other apps work only on the Apple products that has been a reason why Android is more popular than iOS. Moreover, using bluetooth you can only share files with Apple products if you're an iPhone user. Over a period of around 5 years, android and iOS operating systems have become more advanced, competing each other and continuously improving themselves with releases of newer versions of both mobile operating systems in areas they were lacking. Therefore, its hard to distinguish which mobile software offers more or which one is...
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...Dave Cavaliere Mr. Adcock English 111 10 November 2015 iOS vs Android This is to inform the advantages of having an iOS device versus an Android Device. I am going to talk about Apple’s clean software interface versus Android’s, I am also going to explain the processes involved in security updates, and software updates all together. All these combined will construct a pattern of how 90% of all Apple users stay up to date with the most current software while Android has a consistent 35% that are up to date. Apple devices are known to have a cleaner software to hardware integration because Apple specifically designs and fabricates software and hardware for each other while Android designs software only. iOS has always been known for its outstanding smooth interface and most of this is specifically due to Apple writing its own software for its own manufactured hardware whereas Android, while its own software is well known and popular has always been known for its glitches and jumpy interface. This is because Android doesn’t manufacture its own devices, they have companies such as Motorola, Samsung, and Nokia which is great, Microsoft has been doing this for years but the problem is all the devices have their own specification to run on such as different hardware specifications, screen sizes, and based on the carrier i.e. Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and Sprint they have their own software to add and has to be modified to fit their devices. Apple has it written in their...
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...October 25, 2014 Android or iOS, Which Will You Pick? You check your phone bill online and notice you are eligible for an upgrade. Good timing too, the Nokia 3310 that you have been using since 2000 was on its last leg. So you go and look at the new phones that are out and there are so many to choose from. But you want the best of the best, brand new phone, so you do some research. What you find is that Android and Apple are the big names in the game. You end up picking an Android phone, I will tell you why. Apple has been building computers since 1976, but they decided to try their hand at smartphones in 2007, releasing the iPhone. Microsoft, Palm, and Blackberry already had smartphones on the market by then, but the iPhone was the first to offer a touch screen. Apple focused on speed and consistency between apps. There was a lot lacking in the iPhone. It did not support 3G, you couldn’t copy and paste, it did not support third party apps, it had minimal buttons, and it didn’t have a customizable home screen. (IOS: A Visual History) However, no one seemed to care, Apple sold 3.7 million by 2008. Over 500 million iPhones have been sold worldwide, as of June 2014. (How Many IPhones Have Been Sold Worldwide) Everything Apple does is proprietary, so only Apple products will work with Apple products. Android started as a company in 2003 and was acquired by Google in 2005. Google released the first Android emulator in 2007. They kept working on the emulator, getting close and...
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...FIRST AFFIRMATIVE When you choose an Android phone, you have what seems like an endless amount of choices for phones. Do you want a phone that does what phones do along with taking extremely good pictures? Buy a phone whose main focus is the camera. Do you want a rugged phone that could withstand being dropped many times? Do you want a phone that has a Quad HD screen rather than the 720-1080p screen? Do you want a phone with a smaller or bigger form factor? Android phones cover all this plus so much more. That's the beauty of Android phones -- you can get the one that fits you. With an iPhone, well, it's just an iPhone. Whatever it has in it is what you get. Sure you might get 2 or 3 options for a smaller or bigger phone that have slightly different hardware but that's it. The camera, screen, internal hardware, etc. is going to be the same on a model to model basis. For example, you can't buy an iPhone that has a high megapixel camera like Android users can with the Sony Xperia Z2. If you enjoy being able to customize your phone, then Android is the way to go and widgets have long been a huge advantage of Android over iOS. With iOS 8, Apple finally just implemented "widgets", but they are pretty limited. Also multitasking has also been around on Android for a while, and it's extremely easy to use. The majority of Android phones offer expandable memory. What does Apple do? Well, they've never offered expandable memory for the iPhone. Instead, they would rather pay another $100...
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...Platform Wars: Executive Summary IOS: At Apple we measure the success of our mobile operating system in term of revenue generated to our company and not Market Share of the Mobile OS market. Our last quarter showed a record quarterly revenue of $75.9 billion , out of which 51.6 billion only from Iphone sells. Last quarter we also sold more 74.83m smartphones in the fourth quarter, ahead of the 73.03m phones sold by Samsung who is the largest Android-powered mobile computing devices manufacturer and retailer. While Apple's smartphones sales jumped about 49% in the fourth quarter 2016 , according to Gartner. In contrast, Samsung, the market dominator since 2011, recorded a nearly 12% fall. (1) We also made more revenue from Iphone in a quarter than Google have ever made from android.(2) Our apple store offer more than 1.5 apps currently , and is widely known that building for iOS is also easier. We plan to continue optimizing our platform to make it even easier for developers to build apps on it in contrast working in a heavily fragmented Android, platform. Our app quality is better overall according to uTest usability testing, IOS users spend more money on apps even if they download fewer apps overall, our user also spend more time on the internet (3) Android apps don’t make nearly as much money as their iOS counterparts. Android users spend significantly less on average than iOS users. And piracy rates for paid apps are staggeringly high – something like 95 percent...
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...Desktop vs. Mobile Research assignment Computer science 3B MUNWANA THENDO 201112421 TABLE OF CONTENT Introduction------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 Mainstream kernel VS Mobile device kernel-----------------------------------------2 Difference between Windows and Windows RT----------------------------------- 3 Windows------------------------------------------------------------------------------.4 Windows RT--------------------------------------------------------------------------4 Comparison of Windows and Windows RT---------------------------------- 4-5 Difference between Linux and Android-------------------------------------------- 6-7 Difference between Mac...
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...TO IDENTIFY THE TOP THREE OPERATING SYSTEMS FOR SMARTPHONES AND EXPLAIN THEIR FEATURES In this report I want to explain what are the three major smartphone operating systems and their features. The contents of this paper will describe the different design features of Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS and Microsoft’s WindowsPhone operating systems and why the consumers favor them. If you have any questions you can contact me at 409344-0867 or at nuthaky.phani@gmail.com Respectfully yours, Phani Nuthaky TABLE OF CONTENTS Part Page I. INTRODUCING THE REPORT 1 A. What is a smart phone? 1 B. Key smart phone features 1 C. What is a smart phone operating system? 2 II. WHY IS ANDROID THE TOP SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEM? 3 A. What users love in Android? 3 B. Some of the drawbacks of Android 4 III. iOS APPLE’S SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEM 5 A. Features of iOS 5 B. Setbacks of iOS 6 IV. WINDOWS PHONE OPERATING SYSTEM 6 A. Top features of Windows Phone 7 B. Trade offs of Windows Phone 8 IV. SUMMING UP THE SMARTPHONE OS COMPARISON 9 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Graphic Page TABLE 1 Top Smartphone Platforms 11 TO IDENTIFY THE TOP THREE OPERATING SYSTEMS FOR SMARTPHONES AND EXPLAIN THEIR FEATURES I. INTRODUCTION A. What is a smart phone? A smartphone (or smart phone) is a mobile phone with...
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...Business Research Report OS of Champions Assessment Code: RWT1 Student Name: Date: May 18, 2014 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Research Findings 5 Apple IOS 5 Pro’s and Con’s 5 Ease of use 6 Versatility 6 Security 6 Analysis 6 Android OS 6 Pro’s and Con’s 6 Ease of use 7 Versatility 7 Security 7 Analysis 8 Microsoft Windows OS 8 Pro’s and Con’s 8 Ease of use 9 Versatility 9 Security 9 Analysis 9 Recommendations 11 Conclusion 12 References 13 Executive Summary As we prepare to arm our Sales Managers with a devise that will not only keep us competitive in the market, but give us a technological advantage over our competitors. Allowing them to: • Present sales pitch to the customer • Analyze sales performance • Track Sales in real time • Manage Sales Force • Manage Accounts • Conduct training • Keep our data secure • Order equipment direct to the market We must decide which OS best fits our needs. We have researched in depth the three leading operating systems on the market. Apple IOS, Android Jelly Bean, and Microsoft Windows 8.1. While each operating system had great advantages and disadvantages we found the following to be true: Microsoft Windows 8.1 is the clear winner. I recommend we provide each Sales Manager with a phone and tablet computer running the Windows 8.1 operating system by Microsoft. It will give them everything they...
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...Contrast: iPhone Vs. Android IPhone and Android are the latest and most powerful Operating Systems on the market. They are used in our everyday lives, and to be honest who can live without them. Every day over a 10,000 new electronics are purchased. IPhone and Android being the top 2, Apple and Samsung have went head to head in competing for the best product. Apple seems to keep their consumer coming back for more time after time. Making apple the top most purchased product in the U.S. Meanwhile Android is not far behind. They are both great OS’ and both have earned the respect of the world. So now let’s look at the specks of the two devices. While the iPhone has been stuck at the3.5” screen for the past for generations; Apple finally decided on its latest product add-on to make the screen bigger. The stunning iPhone 5 came to be the biggest screen that apple has decided to upgrade the features of the screen. This was the biggest change to the iPhone as most consumers would say. It featured a retina display for nice chromatic picture and video display. With liquid crystal display that apple claims that a natural human eye wouldn’t be able to notice pixilation. Apple also had enforced that this was the sleekest, thinnest, iPhone to date. Weighing in at 3.95 ounces, light and durable! Next on the list iOS, While Android seems to have iOS beat in the market with their amazing Play Store. Apple seems to be catching up in some areas to make the completion list. IOS features many new...
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...ANALYTICAL STUDY AMONG THE INDUSTRY LEADERS (WINDOWS, IOS AND ANDROID) An Analytical Report Presented to MS. MARCIA ROLIZA M. DEL MUNDO, MA Faculty Member, General Education Department In partial fulfillment Of the requirements in BUSINESS WRITING For the course BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING Presented by IBRAHIM ESTOESTA IRYNNE GAE FERNANDEZ ANDRIAN VILLADELREY KYLE VILLANUEVA March 2016 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to express our special thanks of gratitude to the following people: * Our teacher, Ms. Marcia Roliza Del Mundo, who gave us the golden opportunity to do this wonderful project on the topic, “The Best Smartphone Operating System: An Analytical Study Among the Industry Leaders”, which helped us in doing a lot of research and we came to know about so many new things; * Our parents and our friends, who helped us a lot in finalizing this project within the limited time frame; and lastly * Our God, for giving us strength and for guiding us in everything we’ve done for the past months in doing this project. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. Ibrahim Estoesta Irynne Gae Fernandez Andrian Villadelrey Kyle Villanueva TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover Page Acknowledgement BEST SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEM: 4 I. Introduction 5 Internet Operating System or iOS 5 Android Operating System 6 Windows Operating System 6 ...
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...directly rather than from behind corporate firewalls and intrusion-protection systems. Security of mobile devices focuses on controlling access through the use of device locks and hardware data encryption. While this may be sufficient for individual users, it is insufficient for defense needs. Many documented examples exist of hacking of the device lock, as well as defeats of the hardware-level encryption. Once the device is unlocked, there is generally unfettered access to all apps and their associated data. Military applications require additional application-level access controls to provide data security. Unfortunately, there are gaps in the application-level security model of the two predominant mobile operating systems: iOS from Apple and Google Android. Our ongoing research1 looks to address these gaps by developing innovative approaches for fine-grained data protection and access control, taking into account mobile device usage patterns, device characteristics, and usability. Mobile Applications Security Threat Vectors Many threat vectors for infecting personal computers arise from social-engineering attacks that bypass anti-virus defenses. Similar techniques are used in the smartphone and tablet world by...
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...------------------------------------------------- ‘‘A comparative analysis on the marketing strategies of Samsung for Android and of Apple for iOS in UK market and their customer response’’ Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 1.2 Research aims 2 1.3 Research objectives 3 2. Literature review 3 2.1 Introduction 3 2.2 Mobile phone operating system 3 2.3 Global introduction of smartphone 3 2.4 Various operating systems 4 2.5 Overview of the android’s framework 4 2.6 Overview of iOS and it marketing strategy 4 2.7 Comparative analysis of the two 5 3. Research methodology 6 3.1 Methodology 6 3.1 Type of investigation 6 3.2 Data collection method 6 3.3 Sampling method 7 3.4 Accessibility issues 7 3.5 Ethical issues 7 3.6 Timetable 8 4 Anticipated findings 9 5. Conclusions 9 References 10 1 Introduction Various companies use different types of marketing techniques over the few decades. To get competitive advantage over the competitors, developed variations of marketing techniques are quieting helpful to the companies. This is referred as market innovation (Verlog, 2007). Companies have to face with different factors in this modern world of business. New legislations developed marketing tools and corporate social responsibilities are among the newer one. Business has to deal with two basic demands which are to earn profit and to maintain a sustain profit ( Verlog, 2007). Though there are many developed application software were used in past by several cell...
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...“Google Android OS vs. Apple iOS” The competition between Google Android and Apple iOSis one of the most talked after wars in mobile gadget platforms. The Google Android platform is increasingly becoming dominant in the smartphones and tablets market. Nokia, a once leading company in the mobile phone market is slowly entering the smartphone market with a new range of Lumia smartphones powered by Windows 8 mobile as it phases out its range of Symbian powered smartphones. Equally, Motorola Mobility is trying to gain a share of the market by increasing its product portfolio of smartphones in the Droid family. The Android Operating System powers the Droid range of smartphones. Samsung is by far the largest mobile manufacturing company in the world with a full range of Android powered smartphones in the Galaxy family. The recent entry of the Samsung Galaxy SIII heightened the competitive advantage of the Android Software Platform based on the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) software. With HTC,Blackberry OS, and Microsoft Mobile as a distant competitors, the war is clearly not between mobile phone manufacturers but the war is between software manufacturers, and in this case,Apple iOS and Google Android (Katie, 2012). Currently, the competition between Apple iOS and Google Android is so close such that it becomes difficult to tell the superior operating system (Ian, 2011). Undeniably, each mobile platform has its strengths and weaknesses. Advantages of Android OS over Apple iOS For Consumers...
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