Android OS vs iOS

Overview

iOS

Stacks1.9K

Followers1.5K

Votes4

Android OS

Stacks1.9K

Followers524

Votes21

Android OS vs iOS: What are the differences?

What is Android OS? An open source mobile operating system by Google. It is a mobile platform which powers phones, tablets, watches, TVs, cars etc. It makes doing business easier, in the office or out in the field. Manage entire fleets of devices with a touch. Keep corporate data protected with built-in security. And help your employees get more done.

What is iOS? A mobile operating system by Apple. It is the operating system that presently powers many of the mobile devices, including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. It is designed to make your iPhone and iPad experience even faster, more responsive, and more delightful.

Android OS and iOS can be primarily classified as "Operating Systems" tools.

Some of the features offered by Android OS are:

Powers phones, tablets, watches etc
Ultimate security
Build anything on Android

On the other hand, iOS provides the following key features:

Built-in encryption, On-device intelligence
Apple Books
Automatic strong passwords

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iOS	Android OS
It is the operating system that presently powers many of the mobile devices, including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. It is designed to make your iPhone and iPad experience even faster, more responsive, and more delightful.	It is a mobile platform which powers phones, tablets, watches, TVs, cars etc. It makes doing business easier, in the office or out in the field. Manage entire fleets of devices with a touch. Keep corporate data protected with built-in security. And help your employees get more done.
Built-in encryption, On-device intelligence;Apple Books; Automatic strong passwords; Voice Memos comes to iPad; Security code AutoFill	Powers phones, tablets, watches etc; Ultimate security;Build anything on Android; Manage entire fleets of devices with a touch
Statistics
Stacks 1.9K	Stacks 1.9K
Followers 1.5K	Followers 524
Votes 4	Votes 21
Pros & Cons
Pros 2 Integrated with other Apple products 1 Apple 1 Privacy	Pros 4 Customization 3 Not Apple 3 Material Design 3 Open Source 3 Google
Integrations
NativeScript Stripe React Native Dropbox Todoist Xcode Google Sheets	Android Studio Kotlin Android SDK Gmail Google Drive Adobe Illustrator NativeScript Viber Raspberry Pi WhatsApp

What are some alternatives to iOS, Android OS?

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.

Debian

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software.

Arch Linux

A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.

Fedora

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project. Because of its predominance, the word "Fedora" is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system.

Linux Mint

The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.

CentOS

The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code.

Linux

A clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.

CoreOS

It is designed for security, consistency, and reliability. Instead of installing packages via yum or apt, it uses Linux containers to manage your services at a higher level of abstraction. A single service's code and all dependencies are packaged within a container that can be run on one or many machines.

Gentoo Linux

It is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need.