IOS VS Android, The Tech battle of the Century
When it comes to technology, "only the latest, the best and the most suitable can actually satisfy someone's needs or desires to the fullest." Latest itself means improvement, which agrees to the dilemma that says the last one to be the most successful or being a failure. As Steve Jobs said, “Lets go Invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday”.

The revolutionary change that takes the techno sector to a new level was the introduction of smartphones. Portable hand-held devices with operating systems just like our PCs and laptops and sometimes even better than our personal use computers.

The two giants of the Smartphone industry, Apple (IOS) and Android.

Every market has its own competitors and in this market, the two big guns are Samsung and Apple. However this competition spreads over an area of a bigger perspective, which is Iphone against the whole Android family. 

The family includes all the smartphones with android operating systems while for the iphone it is only the IOS. It is more of a rivalry than competition between the users of the two.The arguments are never ending, as every other user has its own priorities so, they rate their devices accordingly.

Perfection is just a myth, a misconception which complements the very qualities of a maker to be the most perfect in his makings. So, there is no such thing as perfect when it comes to human nature and ability and everything needs improvement so as the devices made by these two. Both have their advantages over the other as the arguments and rivalry continues.

When it comes to customization, Android offers more to its users than IOS as it allows it users to install and apply the 3^rd party launchers like GO Launcher and others to customize their home screen and the menu layout of the mobile software, making it less boring and more creative as it offers variety to the eyes of the user. Whereas, IOS doesn’t offer any such customization to its users, no launchers or customization apps can be installed nor can be rooted. Although IPhone offers some customization unless its jailbreaked.


  Installation of custom ROM on an android phone.

I have used both of the phones, the best thing about IPhone is that it never lags; you rarely feel any lag when using an IPhone or any of the other devices of Apple running on IOS. Apple devices run fluidly even on slow processors. And for the Android, whenever I use an android device I get spikes of random lag and an overall inconsistent experience even on the fastest and greatest of the processors.

Android phones give an open source of data sharing without restrictions like Apple devices. Data and files can be shared through Bluetooth or Near Field Communication (NFC) with all the devices except Apple devices, as they only allow apple devices to share data with them.NFC was introduced on android phones about a year or two whereas Apple's latest phones come up with NFC, with the same restrictions and limitations. That means limited or none file sharing just even with the compatible devices. Android devices like S4 and LG G2 work as a remote for many different devices giving a complete edge to the android users.

  Samsung Galaxy S3 as a remote control for a TV.

The Hardware of the phone matters a lot when you are debating about a phone that is to be the best of all. Android has more but sometimes low quality hardware. As on the other hand IPhone offers the best when it comes to hardware, my personal opinion about the hardware is more in the favor of IPhone. IPhone has less to offer but with more advance and better results. When it comes to the camera being measured in megapixels, IPhone offers less as the latest device ; IPhone 6 plus, comes up with an 8 megapixel camera which has less megapixels than many other devices offering cameras. Never the less, it gives clear contrast images which are even better than a 13 megapixel camera image captured from other devices.

   IPhone clearly gives you crispy clear contrast images.

These arguments matter when we know what our priorities are and how we look forward to them.For some, the above stated words are just some normal information as that person might be a loyal IPhone or Android user and will not give up his decision of opting one over the other he might be an IPhone addict or loves to use Android. I’ll pick what I like, I don’t really need to justify my choice as long as I’m satisfied with it and it helps me in what I want to do, nothing else really matters.

By:

1.    Sheikh Abdul Basit

2.    Mustafa Raza

3.    Tabish Khurshid