The difference between iOS and Android - Tech World

In fact, before you can clearly understand this problem, you must know a common sense that everyone can't refuse: iOS is definitely better than Android for most people. This article tries to talk about the understanding and understanding of two mobile phone operating systems from the user's point of view.

Why is iOS easy to use?

There are many reasons for determining whether an operating system is easy to use or not, the system's functional, user experience, stability, application and its surrounding ecology. The iOS operating system is essentially a closed source, highly unified and centralized operating system. This concentration can be understood as centralized. Looking back at the iOS history, you will feel that this level of concentration is even as high as "centralization". Apple has almost all control over its operating system, which makes the iOS system interactive, design style and application ecology. Naturally, they have near-perfect consistency. When you have the latest iPhone in your hand, you will think she is just a piece of art. At the deeper level, this makes Apple's products aesthetically affect users, rather than passively accepting user feedback.

Everyone knows that the ecology of iOS is good, but where is it? I think it's good in two ways.

One *Application Ecology*, an application provides a lot of solutions from pre-design, mid-term development, and later operations. There is HIG in design, Xcode integrated development environment when developing, and a series of solutions such as in-app purchase, Apple Pay, Searchads, etc. when running commercialization, so we see that many independent developers do very good or even more applications. Some commercial companies. If you are careful, you will find that the above mentioned seems to have some shadow on the Android platform. But the difference is actually very big, which is like a code example written by a programmer and an application running in a production environment. It is not a matter of magnitude.

The second is *system ecology*, which may not be of interest to many people, but it is very important. The importance of the operating system as the basis for all upper-level applications is self-evident. It is said that the iOS 12 installation rate has reached 50%, and iOS 11 has used a month to reach the level. iOS takes 20 days to complete. This shows its efficient update iteration cycle. An important concept in the process of software development is the software life cycle. In fact, software and people are the same, people have old and sick, software has been added, deleted and checked. Good software should maintain this balance. The old part of the deletion should be deleted, and the missing part of the addition should be upgraded. But most of the time people only like to add and add features. Programmers should be very aware of this, maintaining or compatibility with the old system is very painful, but Apple can maintain the iOS system quite well. Of course, this is not only the concentration of iOS, but also the expected control of Apple’s marketing methods and user psychology.

Why is Android messy?

Android is impressive in the domestic *application market*, the foreign application market is not so domestic, the foreign application market is either a third-party integrated download station or a mobile phone manufacturer. Mobile phone manufacturers want to establish their own closed-loop system, but in fact only Google can fundamentally close the loop, mobile phone manufacturers are essentially a layer of ROM or UI, which is the application ecology mentioned above. In fact, many companies do not even have their own application ecology.

The Android system is essentially an open source, free operating system. This is its gene, but open source and freedom are sometimes abused and even exploited. The free gene determines that Android will provide users with almost all options and paths. You don't like it, you don't want it, you have to make your own choices. But when the phone is used as a tool, many users don't need a Swiss army knife. They just want a simple and easy to use screwdriver. For those discerning special users Android is perfect, you can think of Android as a microcomputer, you can customize it like a raspberry pie, web server, smart home, private cloud, etc., but these must be built On the basis of your ability

Another reason for Android's chaos is that users' needs are always diverse, and Andoird's mission is to satisfy them. For example, someone will see that the iPhone's bangs feel very chic, they may not be able to change the iPhone, and then they will take it for granted that Android should also have it, because this is the trend.


Since you mentioned the iPhone, you should also talk about Google's Pixel. Pixel has just recently released the 3 series, and Liu Hai is actually the default setting. Everyone has a lot of spit. Nature doesn't have to talk much. In fact, the Pixel series of mobile phones let me see a lot of flash points. Google seems to be slowly understanding the direction of the mobile phone. At the Pixel 3 conference, the concept of the End-to-End camera was mentioned many times. You can analyze the buildings and characters from a photo, and then know the things related to the characters, such as its age, gender, and wear. With this information, he can do some really useful recommendations. If you're a heavy user of Google, you'll find that some of Google's new technologies/software are being developed in the last two years, which is not visible on Apple systems. For example, Siri for iOS and Assistant for Google. On the one hand, Google Assistant is much smarter than Siri. On the one hand, you will feel that Google Assistant can really do something useful and not just a toy. For example, if you receive a call and identify it as a harassing call, assistant can help you to "politely" reject it.

Google's Android phone can solve some Android problems, but since Google itself is a technology gene company, all its software will be functional. Design and user experience won't be its strengths, which makes Google's mobile phone always have a bad feeling. For example, when scrolling this operation, iOS's interaction processing is very good, not only the interface operation is smooth, but also the response is fast, and the stop immediately stops. On the other hand, Android, although there may be a lot of users on the fluency that can't understand the difference with iOS, but using Android always makes you feel smooth when smooth, and should not be smooth when it should not be smooth. There is also the problem of nighttime imaging compared to the iPhone shown on Pixel 3. Pixel can do the same for the night as in the daytime. In most cases, it is good, but if the user wants to take a photo of the night, it is more embarrassing. Alright

Conclusion

In fact, many people talk about iOS and Android, just to say one of them, because these points can impress users. But it is very strange that people always like to undermine their own advantages by demeaning their own deficiencies, because no one is willing to admit that they are not as good as others.

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