Android May Pose Threat To Apples Dominance In Mobile Market

Mobile market is going haywire over smartphones publicity and sales trend

. Android and Apple are the dominant names in the mobile industry. Though, it is reported that Android is shipping more phones than Apple iOS. Androids favorite partner Samsung has sold maximum number of devices in last quarter of the year. Logically, Samsung only tops the position from hardware perspective.

Apple still rules and is preferable choice among mobile app programmers. Apple iOS has maintained its dominance in mobile app development industry. According to recent study, mobile programmers still believe that iOS platform is more promising than Android besides the fact of high sales of Android phones. In last few months it was witnessed that many Android developers made a shift to iOS due to the tedious issue of hardware and software fragmentation of Android phones. Undoubtedly, still shipping of Android phones is higher it is because of the outstanding hardware features proffered by Samsung which are far better than its counterpart Apple. This clears the air for struggling popularity of Android phones users.

From developers point of view Apple iOS is still better choice from Android. There are many issues like software fragmentation, different screen resolutions for hardware devices, security issues, high percentage of malware and many more are associated with Android becoming obstruction in its widespread success. On the other hand, Apple may lack in some hardware features but its some unique characteristics have kept it ahead of others, for eg.

1. Consistency: Though Apple has launched many versions of iOS but they are very easy for iPhone programmers to work with. iOS various versions are consistent enough to ease out the job of developers. They dont put developers in dilemma about what to expect in user experience from different screen resolution and hardware compatibility. In case of Android it is a big pain, developers often get themselves trapped in the web of various screen resolutions on various hardware and software compatibilities.

2. High commercial value of apps: Apple iPhone applications still posses more commercial value than Android apps. For. e.g. Instagram

3. User friendly app store: Though, there is news of security breaching in iPhone applications but they very less in comparison to that reported on Android platform. People still feel more comfortable and secure while downloading and implementing an iPhone app.

So, after stating these points we can say that Apple is ruling mobile app industry but when it comes to shipping devices Android (Samsung) is a winner. Moreover, the number of sales for Android may surge in coming time and posing threat to Apple iOS.

by: Mobile Programming

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