Apple Still Ahead Of Android in Apps Selection

By: Zain Nabi  |   August 19th, 2013   |   Android, iOS

Over the last couple of years Android has gained popularity all over the world but still when it comes to app selection it can’t compare to Apple’s iOS, according to the a research. Research firm Canalys has made a list of top 50 paid and unpaid iPad apps in order to compare the two platforms, Android and iOS. The research was conducted in Apple’s iOS App Store in the U.S. version. They collected the aggregated daily rankings of the two platforms in the first half of this year. The firm then made a list of available apps for Android tablets and Apple’s iPad separately.

 

The researchers found that about 30% of the top iPad apps were not available on Android, while another 18% were available, but did not work on the tablets. In other words, we can say that a little more than half of the iPad apps are available on Android’s tablets as proper apps.

 

There are six unavailable apps that Android users can get directly from Apple. They are iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, Pages, Keynote, and Numbers. Some Android tablet users can also get alternatives of some apps that look great on their tablets, such as, OfficeSuite, QuickOffice, Kingsoft Office, and Google Drive. But when it comes to Photoshop apps, there is always a shortage of good photo and video editing apps for the tablets.

 

However, there are a lot of other cracks in Android tablets when compare with Apple’s iPad. In Android Twitter and Facebook look ugly, especially when we use it on large screen, the timeline scratches unnaturally across the screen, while iPad users can find a larger screen with sidebars in both apps. Another example of poorly optimized apps is ESPN Score Center, which the Android users cannot use in landscape mode. These apps don’t look as bad on small screen as it looks bad on large screen tablets like the Nexus 7.

 

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