Friday, April 4, 2014

Platform Wars: Platform Choice for Sacramento Mobile Apps Growing Moot

There’s no doubting the fierce competition between a bitten apple and a stubby robot. You can have an app for either of the two, but why limit to just that when you can design apps for both? For every ten users, five of them use an Android and four the iOS. Even with a clear one-user difference, the flame wars rage on with no clear winner in sight.



Part of the reason as to the never-ending comparison between Android and iOS stems from an apples-to-oranges contrast. Android and iOS grows more different from each other as it puts more features. While one may score more points in certain aspects than the other, the other will find a way to regain the lead.

For example, Android users enjoy its customizable system where they can configure the system to do whatever they want. Developers of mobile apps for business and casual use in cities such as Sacramento often have a field day with Android because it’s flexible enough to fulfill needs of a client in his app. In short, Android is an open platform.

On the other hand, iOS enjoys the advantage of performance. Episodes of lag may occur, but they’re few and far in between, allowing even older iOS devices to run most apps, if not all, as smooth as whipped cream. In addition, its basic interface makes friends with first-time tablet or smartphone users. It’s a system designed for those who have had enough of excess lag.



So where does this comparison end? As mentioned earlier, the comparison has grown to an apples-and-oranges kind; justifying one to be the better system than the other has grown moot over time. These days, it won’t matter which operating system to choose; mobile applications in use in cities like Sacramento are designed to work in both environments.

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