Kat explains: Android vs. iOS | What's the difference?

What's the biggest difference when it comes to the two biggest mobile operating system? Is iOS really better than Android and is Android the absolute best? Let's find out where this Andorid vs. iOS debate really comes from.
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[johndavolta]

Android=for tweakers, techies, people who want a powerful device
iOS=for casual users who want a fisher-price type of phone

[brianwest]

Let's be honest. People buy the iPhone because it's the "cool" thing to do. Most people aren't phone nerds like us. They buy the iPhone because it's an iPhone.

[johngardner]

I lasted 6 months with an iPhone, it's just not for me, same old dated design. I love the freedom and customization of android

[sherlockholmes]

the feature I love very much on android is it allows me to login several Google account of different countries at a same time, it really helped when the game I want to play are not available for some regions

[tanmaxkmr]

iPhones are boring so is their OS, literally the same since iPhone 6 just minor spec bumps. Android is vast you have futuristic phones like s8 which look like they're waay ahead for their time and HTC, Sony and Huawei etc which give reliable options to choose from. Also Google Pixel is really close to iPhones in terms of reliability. nice video btw

[tiktokfreak]

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[chaosdragoon]

Nice job on the video! Since you did this one, it's only right that you do a video on android fragmentation in the near future. Of course it's been done tons of times. But it hasn't been done with your perspective knowledge.

[SerjStar]

im like on a ledge either i jump and messed the crap out of my phone or it will be heavenly and i will do unspeakable things (not weird) just more fucntions to a simple fix that a oem could have made. Or i could f it up and brick it and lose 400 bucks . whats your input should i jump of the ledge.

[mfrutos]

Interesting points... you should do more videos like this. Very informative.

[johnanderson]

Good video. About the affiliate links, I heard that you're not allowed to state they are affiliated links, so you might wanna check about this so you don't get in trouble.

Topic related: I like both, but iOS is my main. I'm a long time Apple fan and Android took a lot of time to catch up to iOS's level of speed and smoothness, but now it's on par so things are not exactly as they were before.

Pros of iOS:
How it works; rubber band inertial scrolling, swiping from the left side of a screen to return to the last website or menu, etc.
Simple and easy to use.
Easier to jailbreak! maybe I'm stupid, but with iOS it's just a couple of mouse clicks. For Android you have to "flash"(?!) the a modified OS or something like that...

Cons of iOS
But, iOS can improve a lot, like anything in life. Extended customization out of the box would be nice. It's possible with jailbreaking, but I don't feel like going through the process of jailbreaking anymore, even though it's easier. Also partially because iOS is potentially more secure as is. I wouldn't even want to jailbreak an Android device because you can pretty much already modify most of the stuff out of the box.
I'd like iOS to allow emulators on the App Store, like Google allows. Emulators by themselves are legal, so it's weird that they won't allow it...
I miss the old Music app, it would be nice if there was an option to bring it back, even as a second app, the current one doesn't have to be replaced. The iPod icon was cool, too.
I miss the old GUI, it's a shame they don't allow it optionally. iOS 7+ has lots of great features but the dock and icons... I'd prefer the older ones much more.
Perhaps not iOS related but iPhone and iPad in general are not nearly as innovative anymore. The next iPhone, iPhone 8 or whatever, has a lot of hype and I share it too, but let's get real, a lot of those "new features" are just Apple catching up with the competition.

Pros of Android:
Works great.
Fast on latest devices.
Bigger, better displays in terms of tech and resolution, but not color (more on that in the first con of android).
More devices in every price range.
Customizable af out of the box.
Emulators without jailbreaking.

Cons of Android:
Most of the manufacturers couldn't care less about accurate color on their phones' displays, so you get an over-saturated waste of potential if you care about accurate color. Personally it's annoying and insults my intelligence. It's like "hey, let's make the colors pop unnaturally! people will look at it next to an iPhone and be like 'DAMN! this is a better screen!' even though it's not how things actually look". Please.
Worse memory/CPU management.
Weird bugs.
Incredibly unoptimized, Google makes the OS and a million manufacturers for the most part slap an unnecessary skin on top of it and perhaps tweak a few other things and that's that.

Conclusion: Whatever you like more is the one better for you. Like both? you can have both. What's objectively better? you can look at specific technical aspects, and at some, one might be better than the other. However, your experience of a smartphone is more complex than just technical aspects, so you could say "android has better specs" but iOS performs better with less impressive paper specs. So in the end what's better is subjective unless you're talking about specific technical aspects with no personal opinion involved. Do you research, try both, and then decide what you're gonna use based on that.

[YgorCortes]

Have you ever used a Google Pixel? It doesn't have the problems you covered on the video. It's a Google designed phone and runs a Google OS (just like the iPhone), so it has great optimisation.

[theastroquantumguy]

Comparing iOS and Android is actually a very interesting topic but also a bit complicated. Android has the advantage that it is open source, so there is a huge amount of developers who work on it including Samsung, Qualcoom, LG, HTC, MediaThek, ... In contrast to iOS, only Apple (and maybe some few amount of other companies) work on the iOS by itself. Because of that, it is actually difficult to compare which OS is more reliable. There are actually some articles on the web who claim that android is more reliable then iOS, but it is again difficult to what extent this studies are also reliable...
Anyway a interesting topic and nice vid!

[weewy]

Well done. On point and interesting views and facts. I'm on both platforms. Can't live without each other.

[RathaSiv]

I had to watch the video twice. I got lost on my first watch because somethings in you kept blowing my mind away... Nice video kat!

[calden]

This is what I want in iOS before I ever, ever use another iPhone again. Till than, it's Android all the way.

Multitasking, I want to be able to run any and all apps in the background without a time limit, 3 minutes is frankly ridiculous in 2017. I want to be able to download a file in the background that takes longer than 10 minutes (fyi, iOS can't do this). Basically what I want is what I have currently with my Samsung Tab S3 and S8; while streaming a video to my TV, while encoding a video to .mp4, while compiling and application via a remote terminal, while downloading a larger file I’m typing up a response to a Reddit post, wait, that’s what I am doing this very moment. I don’t care about viewing two app’s as the display is just to small.

Inner App Communication, I want iOS’s Share function to create it’s share to lists dynamically like Android does. I am so sick and tired of only seeing a quarter of the apps I have installed in these lists to choose from. When I’m in MS Word for example, I want to be able to share to iCloud, DropBox, Box, Mega and OneDrive, instead of just OneDrive and DropBox.

Mouse support, self explanatory but this also includes better USB support. I want to be able to use my replica game controllers for emulators.

External Monitor support, I simply do not recognize that iOS even has this support because it, well, simply sucks. I mean I have never heard of a HDMI having a friggen GPU/CPU/OS embedded into it because the master OS can't handle it, anyway, I want to be able to connect a 4K, okay, at least a 1080P monitor, mouse, keyboard, external HD and a HP AIO printer to my $1200 device, $1200, let that sink in, there is no excuse here, Apple, do you hear me, get your act together. Again, like I’m doing with my Tab S3, oh and my new S8 with it’s Dex dock. I swear the Samsung S8 is so far ahead of my old iPhone 6s it’s like day and night. I mean I’m friggen connecting it to my firms Citrix server using the fantastic Android Citrix client, basically my S8 is a dub terminal. I have a LAMP server installed, Apache, MySQL, PHP, I have all of my favorite scripting languages installed, Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, etc. I can create detailed reports all in the background and on a timer, like at 6:00pm every day, I have a script that imports delimited data attached to an email from our clearing houses into a MySQL DB. Than using Office HD, which is OpenOffice for Android with all of the same features found in the desktop version, which by the way is amazing and absolutely blows away every single other mobile office suite by a factor of 10. Than using Office HD’s built in scripting language, also something that no other office suite has, in either iOS or Android. I create a detailed report with graphs, export the report to a secure NAS that requires LDAP, than finally email out the report to those who need it. Again, all done in the background and automatically. This saves me around 3 hours of work a day, yeah, you read that correctly, 3 hours, 15 hours a week. Automation is so important to me that I absolutely refuse to use an iPhone or iPad for work because of it.

Look I don’t dislike my iPad Pro, I use for music creation and for that purpose it rocks but not because of the OS but the software. IOS is really bad guys, app developers have to pretty much create an entire OS for their apps to function because the host system is so lacking.

File system, or should I say, lack of one, as it stands now, it’s a complete nightmare. I hate always bringing up my Android systems up but I need a comparison. As of right now I can mount my firms NAS, my personal NAS, all of my cloud services and other computers on the network as local folders in which every app installed can access directly. Saving, moving, copying files around the system is so easy that there is no thought involved. With iOS it's like a complicated math problem which requires way to much thought, I mean just copying photos to a USB drive is enough to make anyone suicidal. IOS needs a complete and utter rewrite, it's time Apple, iOS has the same exact problems it had when it was first introduced. I mean it took Apple 8 years to even release a share function.

Until such time the Apple does rewrite iOS for the better, I will never own another iPhone as they are just a complete and utter waste of money and I will only use my iPad Pro, which I won't be replacing anytime soon for music creation and drawing, Though I have to say, my Tab S3 is really great and my Wacom Studio 13 can’t be beat, which was like only $300 more than my iPad Pro, ridiculous when you think about it.

[alperenozturk]

It's just closed system vs open system situation. ios has hardware/software fit but dont forged, most of the android phones work with qualcomm processors. Android also has software-hardware fit. Also huawei builds its own chipsets. They also have software/hardware fit. Sony builds its own cameras. Samsung also can make both hardware and some software. Nowdays, its just open system versus closed system situation.

[einc]

iOS: get controlled, Enablee, Sheeple, boxed.

Android : You control, Enabler, you become the God of your phone, freedom.

Android for me. I get bored very quickly on iOS nothing to do other than look cool.

[SerjStar]

what do u think about the new iPad 2017 not the iPad pro the cheaper one I want your input.

[pabloandreschacon]

I have had Samsung devices and they crash and went down also restart itself, however I started to use Huawei devices and that issue never happen to me again. I think that depends on the device because Huawei produce their own processors while other Android devices do not.

[technology]

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