Com 170

The Tale of Two Mobile Operating Systems “Android vs. I.O.S”

Com 170

11/20/2013

I. Introduction

* Thesis Statement

II. I.O.S Operating System

A. I.O.S Operating System

* Multitasking

* Lock Screen

* Home Screen

* Calendar

* Quick Setting

* Text messaging

III. Android Operating System

B. Android Operating System

* Multitasking

* Lock Screen

* Home Screen

* Calendar

* Quick Setting

* Text Messaging

IV. Conclusion

C. The choice is yours

The similarities between Apple’s I.O.S Operating System and Google’s Android Operating System are striking and they deserve a thorough investigation on how they have changed the way we use a mobile phones, and due to Android being an open source operating system, Android will be the clear winner of this war of operating systems

“I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.” (Steve Jobs ”Excerpt from the Autobiography Of Steve Jobs”)

Cellphones, who would of thought just six years ago that technology would be this far ahead. It was just like yesterday that we were all using slider phones, flip phones and we thought, well this is my phone it makes calls that’s all I need it to do for me, little did we know that two companies where working behind the scenes tirelessly trying to invent the next “Big Thing” in mobile technology. Let’s go back in time to January 1, 2007 the “iconic” Apple IPhone was introduced to the world. The first complete touchscreen cellular phone, you heard me a phone where you can touch the screen to make calls, what kind of alien technology is this. The world went crazy for the iPhone. Not to be undone Google Inc. was working on a phone of their own phone called the “Gphone”, that’s when the mobile phone war...