Mobile Business Solution: A Comparison of Android and iOS Platforms

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Mobile Technologies
The information superhighway is proceeding in the midst of the evolution of technology
and internet. The mobile phone devices are gaining popularity due to the rapid advancement of
technology, which allows the users to conveniently access the various types of information
available on the internet via the wireless networks used in the mobile phone devices. Many new
applications are getting invented like iOS, Android and Blackberry applications to name a few.
iOS was the name given by Apple to the operating system that runs and supports all the touch
screen mobile devices like iPads, iPhones and iPods. iOS has made the touch screen so easy to
use because of its Multi-Touch interface. Anything whatever the user does is in an easy,
spontaneous and fun way. Android is an operating system designed for mobile phones and is
developed on the modified version of Linux (Allsopp, 2013). Google android for last three years
has moved from open source solution to the mobile operating system that dominates among all
mobile handsets. Research in Motion provides ‘BlackBerry App World’ to the marketplace
particularly devoted to the BlackBerry users. BlackBerry apps have been listed among 1000 best
apps developed for mobile phone users
Mobile Platforms that are in use
This section will highlight the two leading mobile platforms that are in use today. That is
Android and iOS platforms. A comparison table will be used to compare the two OS.
Android and iOS operating systems
Android operating system came into its infancy not so long ago, and it was an endeavor
and craftsmanship of two individuals named Nick Sears and Andy Rubin. Even they would have
never thought that their product would go to an international level and would end up between
amongst the top three operating systems in the world of computers. They designed the product

with the motto of mobile devices that are smarter in their functionality and facilitate its users in
terms of their choices and locations (Baltzan, 2014).
What started off as an amateur venture by the two individuals, in few years’ time it
caught the attention of Google Inc, and Google inc decided to purchase it, the case grew further
strong when Open Handheld Alliance (O.H.A) incorporated Android operating system into its
systems and services (Rodda & Library of Congress, 2014). O.H.A itself is a giant entity that has
over 80 international brands under its umbrella all working in the field of communication,
computers and services. These include H.T.C, Samsung to name a few. The O.H.A and android
together aim to provide a new medium to the users in form of enriched mobile phones as well as
computing operating system which is designed with due consideration of the customers’ needs
and requirements (In Penttinen, 2015).
Apple’s recent updated model iOS4 is competing with Android. While Android
programming is done in Java, for its varied applications, Apple iPhone uses a computer
programming language called Objective-C, which is further up-gradation of C and C++.
However, there is no common language-programming platform that may prove useful for both
the mobile phones (Justin & Jude, 2017).
Comparative table for Android and iPhone platforms
Feature Android iPhone
Operating
System
Google, open source system. Closed system OS,
propriety item of Apple.
Carrier
network
T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint
all provide network for Android.
Only AT&T (GSM)
network carrier.
4th generation
data network
Available with Verizon, Sprint and
others.
Not available except
AT&T network
generation.
Applications Android applications can be found
almost everywhere, as it is
The choice is limited to
Apple-developed