Everyone knows that Apple and Android have been competing for so many years. The debate keep going just like debating if women are smarter than men. It would never have a conclusion because it just different thing.
iOS and Android operating systems are built on a different ideologies and formats. iOS can be considered as a closed system. The way to limit Apple’s products under this closed system was made with the release of the iPhone. As Zittrain (2010) states, the idea of coming out with iPhone dropped the feature of the traditional open-source software which not allowing outside programming. Some may say that Apple is selfish, which yes, I agree 😀 But this is also the exclusive to the copyright holder.
As like Raymond (2001) compared both closed and open source system to a Cathedral and a Bazaar, he likened the closed software to a cathedral which it is carefully crafted by individual wizards or small bands of images working in splendid isolation. The design may be great, but it has difficulty in becoming improved.
However, Android, can be considered as an open system. The founder of Android, Rubin elaborate Android as a free, open source mobile platform that any coder could write for and any handset maker could install’ (2008). Raymond (2001) also pointed that the open system like Android is like a bazaar where anyone can contribute to the development of the product. It similar to a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches.
People around me owns either one of them, so do I. I’ve been an Apple iOS girl owning a iPhone 5. Somehow I like the way the iOS organize everything for me without having me doing it. Yay, I am lazy. 😛 But I would say that, Android phones are more creative in a way that it allows people to do whatever they want.
Well, I would say the interest of iPhone 6 and 6 plus remains high! Even it haven’t even launched in Malaysia, some of my friends are already getting it from Singapore. They just can’t wait. Also, how powerful is Apple product was illustrated at the picture above where there’s a huge line of customers waiting to purchase the iPhone 6 at an Apple store in Birmingham, England.
Reference:
Raymond, E 2001, ‘The Cathedral and the Bazaar’, Aug 22, accessed 20/9/2014, http://www.unterstein.net/su/docs/CathBaz.pdf
Zittrain, J 2010, ‘A fight over freedom at Apple’s core’, The Financial Times, Feb 3, accessed 20/9/2014, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/fcabc720-10fb-11df-9a9e-00144feab49a.html#axzz3DICiCqL5
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