IOS vs ANDROID

As the year goes by; the smartphone grew up the past 10 years we’ve been locked in a battle to the death between Apple and Samsung nights in Google Pixel and others.
Android versus IOS as whatever it is the past 10 years have been a constant back-and-forth between these factions is the best one but a funny thing happened on the way to a world dominance for 1 smartphone platform or the other smartphones actually like grew up matur’d and now they’re all really good, the smartphone wars ending in a stalemate, of course we still have the zealous on 1 side of the aisle or the other, but if you take a step back and look at smartphones now compared to 10 years ago and I think that you have to agree that the arguments we have over which phones are better worse or whatever phones are just no longer as dramatically different from one another as they were in years past in the early days, apple’s camera was miles ahead of anything android had but slowly android got better and the android phones like the Google pixel took over and they were the best for a while now this past year it’s all like become a big race again in the past couple of years everything about a smartphone stays balanced and by-and-large I mean if you buy a flagship smartphone in 2020 you are getting a phone that is fas and filled with features it’s getting on where it’s inconceivable a decade ago, it’s attractive looking well made and believe you wanting for nothing in the features that so different by such small increment. It’s really become kind of an interesting argument to have because there’s not really any argument namely a top tier phone that falls down it is significantly on any of the major specs and screen, now they’re all above a threshold of quality that was unheard of 10 years ago battery life everybody’s got at least a full day of battery life quality, good across-the-board most flagship android phones have the exact same processor and graphics chip then ugly any different at all each year the iPhone gets faster with new features in a better chip and blah blah blah but Apple supports the phones that they’ve made up to 5 years back with brand new software updates every single year the smartphone market has just flattened out people have long complained that phones look more and more alike and it’s true, we have reached a point of inflection where there is not much else that can be done with a smartphone in its current form with the contact knowledge, once smartphone is largely as good as the next when you view it from a little bit further back than just the name on the phone itself, in 2019 people went cuckoo over the foldable screens but not because they were good phones or better than the form factor they were trying to replace, infact on many levels foldable phones proved that they were not yet ready for prime time in my opinion, foldable phones are not the future of the smartphone industry there is an indicator of a direction smartphones are moving toward but come on, phones with hinges screens that could break I mean that’s not the next thing in smartphone, technology whatever the foldable phones becomes afterwards will be what the next thing is but not before mobile phone itself and yes they’re cool for now but just settle down.
The overall point is this, in twine 19 the smartphone completed its journey for a phone by being a luxury item, something that was unique and different to becoming a commodity something that everybody has and it’s just odd, all that matters is that you have one there’s not enough unique about current smartphones to make them stand out from one another from this point, on the real interest in smartphones it’s going to be two fold one in 2020 were going to be a lot more intrested in how much phone we can get for smaller and smaller prices and on the other end will continue to watch companies experiment with folding designs and all kinds of different stuff like that but those phones will have little to no impact on the overall smartphone market, the 2010s were incredible decade that really change the relationship we have with technology and made it more personal, more prevalent, and just glued a phone’s to our hands and our faces but the boom times are over, the Tech has mature and now we’re just waiting for the next thing in the meantime smartphones will fade into our everyday lives like cars and other paradigmp shifting Tech that it came out and change the world, but this has since become a commodity instead of a luxury, mark my words in later 2020 you’re going to see a lot more cover Tech, covering cheaper phones with capabilities of mid-range phones which have expanded considerably and the question will be if I can get all of this for $500 why would I pay a $1000? The end of the day while we were all fighting small battles all over the place the smartphone war ended, the smartphone grew up matured and is now left the next and we’re just left waiting to see what the next would be, we’re left in the lurch and we just have to choose between Android and IOS according to individual usage.

NOTE: Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS are operating systems used primarily in mobile technology, such as smartphones and tablets. Android, which is Linux-based and partly open source, is more PC-like than iOS, in that its interface and basic features are generally more customizable from top to bottom.

By: Ayodele Ayodeji Emmanuel