The Difference Between iPhone And Android

A friend asked: “I’d like to know the difference between an Android and an iPhone.”

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 iPhone and Android are two different flavors of smartphones, in fact the iPhone is just Apple’s name for the phone they happen to make, but their operating system, iOS, is Android’s main competitor.You should probably look at iOS and Android as you’d look at a Ford and a Chevy, 99% of what they do is the same, and they both do it well. You’ve probably heard that iPhones are better or Android is better, in reality they’re comparable, it’s mostly a matter of personal preference.Now, we should mention that the iPhone is indeed better than a huge number of Android phones, BUT so are all the higher-end Android models. Manufacturers put Android on some very cheap phones and you do get what you pay for. All iPhones are expensive, and they’re expected to perform the way expensive phones should. All iPhones are expensive, and they’re expected to perform the way expensive phones should, but don’t take that to mean that high-end, expensive Android phones do any worse, they don’t, the cheap ones that cost a fraction of the money do. If you compare make sure you’re comparing things that are in fact comparable. Again, think of it as Chevy and Ford, don’t compare a base model Spark and think it will be as nice as a fully loaded Lincoln… Now, if you want to compare Cadillac and Lincoln, or a Spark and a Fiesta, knock yourself out.The iPhone’s iOS tries to be predictable and simple and it does that at the expense of customization, iOS can be rigid. Android is the opposite, it can sometimes make people dig a little bit more, but a huge portion of the user experience can be customized. iPhones obviously play very nicely with the rest of the Apple ecosystem, so you can share a clipboard and copy and paste from one device to the other, start your mobile hotspot from another device, start an email or document on one device and continue it on the other at any point, access a Mac’s folders from the iPhone, etc. That means that if you already have other Apple products, the iPhone has a little bit of an edge in that, but that alone is not a reason to rule out Android.

Here are few difference you can find in both phone

1. iPhone apps do not crash as often as their Android counterparts

2. The home screen on iOS is not as customizable as the one on Android

For as long as I have used the iPhone SE, no app on it has crashed. Although the Nexus 6 I had before was a capable smartphone for its time, I have had so many issues with apps crashing on it that I felt it was normal. A positive difference is that apps are not crashing on the iPhone as often as on Android. However, there are times when some of them can lag for a second or two before responding to my taps.

Coming from the Android ecosystem, I was used to being able to customize everything. The first big difference is the fact that the home screen on the iPhone is a lot more limited in personalization options than the one on Android. The lock, notification, and home screens of an iPhone SE

On my iPhone, the only things I can change about the home screen are:

• Choosing a different image for the wallpaper
• Changing the order of the app icons
• Creating folders in which I can place multiple app icons

That is not much compared to what you can do in Android. These are the features I miss most:

• I cannot use widgets. The only place where you can have widgets in iOS is the Notifications Screen.
• There is no apps drawer like in Android. All the apps are shown on the home screen, so you have to create app folders to get all the clutter organized.

3. The App Store feels better organized than the Play Store

The Play Store on Android has been significantly improved over the years, and it has become easy to navigate. My first encounter with Apple's App Store was even more favorable. It looks more straightforward, although it is also split into categories and top charts, just like the Play Store. Since I've had my iPhone, the App Store experience feels more polished and friendly. This is, however, a personal opinion, and other people might feel differently about the App Store versus the Play Store.

Apple's App Store

4. Some apps from the App Store are better than their Android counterparts

Apple is known for its high standards regarding the apps that make it through its App Store. That means that developers must create apps that pass specific usability and quality criteria that are established by Apple. As a direct consequence, some third-party apps are more polished than what you find in the Play Store for Android.

The YouTube app for iOS

5. There are more paid apps for iPhones than for Android, but there are also fewer ads

Although the essential apps everyone uses are free on both platforms, when you get out of this bubble, you find that more apps in the App Store are paid, compared to Android. That is probably because Apple's audience is considered to be more willing to spend money on apps than Google's audience. However, that also means that the apps for iOS are usually less filled with ads. On my iPhone, I had to adjust to paying some money for a few of the apps I was used to getting for free on Android.

Both are good options, if you’re stuck choosing between them our advice would be to try them both and see what you think, to not go for the absolute cheapest Android handset if you can avoid it, and if you’re new to both platforms maybe see which one your friends use, in case you need to ask for help.