Originally Posted by earth:
“Hiya all I have always used a Android mobile. And. I was thinking about getting the iphone 6s plus.
What is your experiences with Android and IOS?
And what are the significant differences between them?
Thanks”
The role of the phone operating system is to give you stock apps like browsers and calendars and to enable an ecosystem of apps in a store which run on top of the OS, you also need settings to be able to choose OS options and connect to wifi or set up preferences, that's it basically, then everything else is in the hands of third party developers.
Both systems have all of this, and there's nothing major that one system can do which the other can't. What it comes down to really is personal preference, I'll rank what I think the best aspects are of each.
Apple IOS
Polished and more perfected user experience end to end
More curation of apps and slightly better app security
Better if you run lots of Apple products and sync things across devices
Great for updates, everyone gets them on the day of release and you are guaranteed updates
Store support, need help go to an Apple store and they will book you in and sort it out
Android
More open source, more free or lower cost apps
You can customise your experience a lot more
Wide variety of phones from different makers, meaning more options in terms of design and hardware features
Can normally mod or put different software on if you want to
Can be lower cost (not always) but there are extremely good Android phones out there for very good prices
I'd say it's really down to personal preference, no one of them is 'better' because 'better' is subjective to the person who is buying and what they rank as the most important things to them, they are both 'different'.
I deliberately spread myself about, I use IOS on my iPad, I use Android on my phone, I'm typing this on my Windows laptop having just finished work using my work supplied Macbook where I spent a large amount of the day using Linux via SSH to manage servers.