The World with the population of 7.1 billion people has more
than 1 billion smartphone users. Mobile operating systems are running on the
smartphones e.g. Android, iOS, Windows OS, BlackBerry and Firefox OS.
Google’s Android is the most popular and widely used
smartphone operating system followed by Apple’s iOS in second place.
Android covers 80% market share with leadership in 135 countries,
while iOS cover 15% market share of the total smartphones sale being leader in
38 countries. Android phones are available at low prices that’s why it has been
easily adopted in emerging countries which have low per capita income. Google
has not tied android with any single manufacturer company and that makes its
easy accessibility and variety of hardware choices by people while iOS are only
tied with Apple’s devices bearing higher prices.
iOS developers found that 36% apps complete within one month
while android developers told that around 41% apps develop within one month.
Apple’s iTunes charges $99 per year for publishing an app and 1-2 weeks of
approval time while Google Play Store charges $25 per year and approves an app
within 6-9 hours.
Google Play Store has around 1.4 million applications
published on it, out of which 85% apps are free and 42% apps have In-app
purchases while iTunes has 1.3 million apps published on it amongst which 25%
apps are free and 32% apps have In-app purchases. IOS users generate 62% share
of web traffic through their iPhone
devices while Android users generate 38% share of web traffic.
Know lots of informative facts about iOS and android from
below infographic.
Image courtesy: Nine Hertz
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