Android vs iOS - The History.

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you are watching cold fan [Music] TV the silent battle that's been going on for eight long years two different underlying philosophies two different types of users almost two different worlds one side value stability ease of use and simplicity this is Apple's IOS the other side values openness choice and customization this is Google's Android the Rivalry between these os's is also personal to a large percentage of the population who own a smartphone the most personal device of all this is part one of the two-part series on Android versus iOS in these videos we'll take an interesting look at the brief history of both Android and iOS weigh out the pros and cons of each and then we'll take a look at what conclusions we can draw is one better than the other or is that even the right question to be asking there's a lot to this story but to really understand it we have to go to the beginning by looking at the history of each operating system in context we can understand their philosophies completely let's begin in 2005 when Steve Jobs was first envisioning the iPhone either he could make a miniature version of the Mac or enlarge the iPod which was Apple's main portable product at the time into a phone Steve assigned two different teams within Apple to pursue both options the team in charge of scale down the Mac created the iPhone OS now known as iOS now software on mobile phones is like it's like baby software it's not so powerful and today we're going to show you a software breakthrough software that's at least 5 years ahead of what's on any other phone now how do we do this well we start with a strong Foundation iPhone runs OS 10 so why did Steve ultimately choose to scale down the Mac well there's two main reasons the first one Mac OS was already complete it had animations sound power management and many other things built in why would you want to reinvent the wheel when you could just optimize the software and get it to fit in a smaller package the second reason is that Steve knew the software inside and out this knowledge helped him know that optimizing software to shrink the Mac down into a phone was indeed possible such deep involvement is often rare for a modern CEO so we have to ask how exactly did Steve know the software so well as it turns out Mac OS was actually made from the remnants of a software called Next Step Next Step was developed by Steve Jobs when he was fired from Apple in 1985 as a fun side point the worldwide web was actually built on a nextstep system in 1989 by Tim Berner Lee if you want to know more you can check out a video that I did on the history of the internet in the description below in 1997 Apple bought Next Step which brought Steve Jobs back as the CEO over the years Next Step was developed further to finally become Mac OS which as we know finally became iOS so in actuality iOS didn't just fall from the sky it had a rich history all the way back from early 1986 this is one of the major reasons why iOS was so polished from the get-go Android on the other hand was a bit of an experiment upon release founded in October 2003 by Andy Ruben Rich Mina Nick Sears and Chris White Android was initially supposed to be digital camera software of course early on it was clear that this Market was way too small so the company concentrated on producing a smartphone OS that could take on Nokia Symbian and Microsoft's Windows mobile sounds good it all started when I first met Andy who was CEO of danger and I was working at team mobile we also had another friend in common and the three of us all believed that it was too difficult to get new products out to consumers in a timely fashion and we thought the missing link was not having an open platform and that's how Android got started in July 2005 Google acquired Android Incorporated for over 50 million with this Capital Android began developing prototype phones early Android prototypes were more like blackberries that is they had no touchscreen and a physical qued keyboard later prototypes were later re-engineered to support a touchscreen to compete with other announced devices such as the 2006 LG Prada and of course the iPhone and 2007 on November 5th 2007 an industry watershed moment occurred the open handset Alliance was unveiled the alliance was an effort to develop Open Standards for mobile devices it included HTC Sony Samsung Sprint T-Mobile and Chip manufacturers such as Qualcomm Google knew they couldn't do it alone the first commercially available smartphone running Android was the HTC dream in late 2008 although it was rather jangly and didn't seem to fit together very well heavy Gmail integration widgets and useful pull down settings menu along with almost Limitless customization set Android apart the lagginess of the HTC dream and other early Android devices when compared to the iPhone resulted in a negative perception in the minds of the average uninformed consumer it did also do some brand damage to the operating system early on since then however Android phones have changed greatly over time over the years Android became more refined less buggy and overall more polished okay so that's all well and good but some of you might want some practical quantifiable proof of this how has Android performance in comparison to the iPhone changed over time well in early 2004 14 the touch response time for a high-end Android phone was around 114 milliseconds at Best in comparison to this the iPhone 5 and 5s came in at a blistering 75 [Music] milliseconds but by the end of 2014 new Android phones had come to the market and things had changed in that short amount of time as shown by the data here the top smartphones were actually more responsive than the current iPhone at the time all right so I've been talking a lot about how Android has changed over time but what about Apple well as you would have guessed these changes weren't only limited to Android iOS has also changed a great deal over time a lot of the early limitations pertaining to options and features have been lifted iPhones are now a far cry away from having no video camera or copy and paste now there's a choice of two phone sizes a notification center low power mode and limited multitasking Android viewers May note that a lot of these things have arguably been borrowed from Android okay so with all of that history out of the way and all of that said that brings us to the present day which OS is better today looking objectively today stock iPhones still lag behind Android in terms of functionality but is this necessarily A Bad Thing do the benefits of iOS outweigh the cons or is it flipped to the other side does Android hold the key to success in its openness and choice in the next episode we'll take a look at the app environment user base pros and cons issues and features of both Android and iOS after this we'll finish off with what's in store for the future where are Android and iOS both going it's going to be a great video so stay 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