iPhone vs. Android

Before I begin, I must point out a few major differences with the companies and the different operating systems. 1. Android OS is for more active usersThe Android operating system is more open for the user to change settings that are unable to even be viewable by iOS. The fact that the operating system itself is so open to the applications is what makes the Android OS far superior to the iOS. Many apps on the Play Store (the application marketplace, much like the Apple Store for iOS users) can change how your phone operates. For example, you can put a Siri on a phone with a proper microphone. It is not called Siri, but it is much made to be like Siri from the iOS. This was before the Droid Maxx's voice control feature, and it sufficed for being an equivalent for Siri on the operating system. The fact that the operating system is so open to change is one of the many reasons as to why it is vunerable to hackers. However, there are many different free versions of security software that can help to prevent hackers from getting into your phone that are very proffessional and is something that any Android OS user should have on the device. However, the beauty of it is that they did not have to. They have choices on what they want to protect the device. 2. Google vs. AppleThe Apple more often than not is more secure for two different reasons. a. The codingThe programming language of the devices are not often known to the open public, which is much different than the Android OS. Most people in the field for Information Technology are not familiar with Apple coding. Thus, the hacker count is very small for iOS. b. Apple checks the apps for issues themselves. Apple will check the software for any viruses, trojan horses, etc. You usually will never have to worry about a virus with iOS. So, thus far, we have determined that an Apple product will normally be pretty safe, but you can also make an Android product equally safe. We have covered the security issue. Also, Google is constantly trying to make this operating system safer from the OS alone while still giving the user the freedom of having the completel OS under his/her control. They allow you to choose to be safe or not. Next to cover: StorageMy opponent makes the claim that the Galaxy S5 has the apps take up half the 16GB of data right out of the box along with the carrier apps. I will take the time here to point out another flaw in most Apple hardware for the iPhone: Uprgradable Storage. You can easily upgrade the storage on most Android devices in which you can also possess multiple SD cards, allowing you to take the data that is in your phone, such as pictures, videos, etc to be uploaded directly to a computer so it can be stored there instead of the smartphone. Also, the Galaxy S5 has upgradable storage up to 128 GB per card. I will not cover Graphical ability due to its irrelavancy to the OS and the Android smartphones have a vast range of graphical cability. I will not cover proccessing due to its diversity amongst the Android marketplace. Rebuttals:"The iPhone on the other hand has just enough of everything and comes with only 20 apps, a third of the GS5. "1. App storage amount can be extremely diverse, and it depends on the app. 2. You can remove the apps off of the phone, but it requires a slightly different process that the device usually does not tell you. "Google does fairly well in updating their OS, but needs to figure out a way to get it to all the devices quickly and easily, otherwise it puts users at risk. " Although this is true, it does put users at risk, most Android OS phones have many different setups and functions for multiple, different devices. It can not just release an update universally for all phones. It must go to each device and set up an update for it. And, since most devices are not on the same OS version, they must be extremely careful when applying these updates. "In the making of an operating system, security is one of the most important factors. Your mobile phone could hold cached credit card and bank-account information, email account access, other people's private contact information, and much more that a hacker would gleefully accept. "This is not even remotely true. In the making of an operating system, security is not a priority. This is due to the fact that it is software. An operating system acts like a translator between the other software and the hardware. Yes, they will send out a security patch from time-to-time, but it is not a priority for Operating System Developers. Also, any smartphone user puts their data at risk when they put their data on their smartphone and buy stuff with it across the network. iPhone or Android, this information is easily obtainable. ". Although the systems themselves have been updated fairly often, iOS is able to get to the iPhone much easier than Android is to an Android-based phone. The reason for this is because Google makes the software, whereas other people like Samsung make the hardware" That is not true. As I have stated above, the security is not a priority for the OS. The software does not run through google. They do not really check the apps on the market. It is more like the internet that way. Yes, companies like Samsung make hardware, and they sign a contract with Google to make the OS for the device. It is an Android OS, but that is why they are so diverse. Now, honestly, if Google wanted to make a better customer support for the phones, they easily could. However, they have to spend money on so many other things than just the Android OS support. A lot of the audience may be thinking, "Well, if they make so much money off of it, why are they not making it better? " They make much more money off of other things. They have one product in particular that is much bigger than Android OS. It is the name of the company: Google. Google makes more money than any other product that it possesses. Google also has many other investments it must maintain such as YouTube, the newly bought Oculus Rift, which is coming out for the general public shortly, Gmail, Satellite Investment (for Google Maps and the Navigation app), Chromebook support, and many other things. Let me compare this list to that of Apple's : They have to support iPhone, iPad, iPod, i/tunes, any other computers, and Satellite Investment. This is quite small compared to Google. So, it is reasonable as to why the support isn't that great as the iPhone. I am sorry that I posted rebuttals this round, but with only three, I was left with no choice. Sources:. http://computer.howstuffworks.com...https://www.apple.com...http://www.samsung.com...