Mobile Programming

Thursday, May 22, 2014

The Battle of the Giants : iOS vs Android

The battle between Tech Giants have been growing through years for a better part of a decade. iOS and Android platforms have both evolved considerably with a slew of Smartphones and other handheld devices coming to the centerstage. We can not deny the fact that there is an equal increase in number of developers as mobile applications have become the soul of smartphones. Change is the only constant and therefore innovation has become the key to attain rapid improvement in performance. This conflict between two major platforms will never come to an end. Analysts recommend few advantages of different operating systems in order to give a slight overview to mobile programmers.
Advantages of Apple App store:
  • Deploying an application via the Apple app store will give them a better visibility than any other marketplace. There is no denying the fact that iOS App development would get more traction than their counterparts. Apple provides various categories to developers like App of the week category, Popular App category and so on that cater better chance of promoting the application across multiple channel store.
  • The developers attain 70 percent of profits when they choose to deploy on iOS. The returns are high because of the reasonable registration fee, thereby making it feasible for them to gain more profit. The returns would become considerably higher to a large extent if their application or in app products got popular with the masses.
  • The positive point behind publishing an app on iOS is that the review team gives a clear idea to the developers behind the rejection of their application. Drawn out approval process seems annoying but this increasingly proliferate their skills of mobile application development.
Disadvantages:
  • Maximum Approval time taken by iOS review team.
  • Apps visibility in order to generate maximum profit
  • Each and every category must be saturated

Advantages of Google play store:
  • In case of Google Play, app submission process is less annoying in comparison to iOS. According to many reports, android developers enjoy more freedom than their counterparts.
  • They can even focus on developing a customer base after an application has been made live. The app would offer certain adequate value to the end user and this will thereby help them to boost their business.
  • The registration processing cost to Google play developer console is only $25, which is inexpensive and affordable for them to submit their application to this marketplace.
Disadvantages:
  • Highly fragmented Android platform
  • Maximum number of free apps on Google play store
The debate among tech giants is progressing day by day due to onset of technologies and this will never come to an end. Thus both the platforms come with their shares of advantages and disadvantages. From a developers perspective iOS will always be a beneficial platform as it offers engaging tools for promote applications. Moreover it has been designed to be user centric, which is why users spend more time on it than android. The secure ecosystem provided by iOS sugar coats the overall package and makes the overall deployment process highly seamless.