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Android VS Other Mobile Operating Systems - ABNHive


iOS

iOS, an operating system from Apple, was originally developed for the iPhone. Later it was extended to support iPod Touch, iPad and Apple TV. Apple’s App Store contains more than 500,000 applications and boasts more than 25 billion downloads collectively. It holds the reputation of intelligent UI creator which is based on the concept of direct manipulation, using multi-touch gestures.

Android

Android is a Linux based mobile operating system developed by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google. Android boasts large community of developers writing applications extending the functionality of the devices. It has 450,000 apps in its Android Market and download exceeds 10 billion count.

BlackBerry OS

BlackBerry OS is developed by Research In Motion (RIM) for its line of smartphones. This operating system is known for its native support for corporate e-mail through MIDP allowing complete wireless activation and synchronization with Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino. Accordingly to one research approximately 45% of mobile developers were using the platform at the time of publication. It provides BlackBerry API classes for developers to write applications.

Windows Phone

A successor to Windows Mobile platform, Windows Phone, is a mobile operating system launched by Microsoft in late 2010. This mobile OS is targeted at consumer market. With this new operating system Microsoft offered new user interface, Metro, integrating the operating system with third party and other Microsoft services, and controls the hardware on which it runs.

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