Maybe the iphone is different, I would hope so. App store, Apple. ID and other information harvesting. OK, Google is showing itself not be a saint either. Of the Apps we have tried that were so called listed as free, they were basically fronts for developers to give you the most rudimentary functionality available whilst hitting you to pay for anything extra. I have hardly tried many apps so Im talking from a total novice aspect here but compared to Android where free generally means free without the on sell, I found this to be quite an eye opener of how the Apple store operates sadly, I suspect Googles App store will eventually end up in the same make money at all costs approach. Peripherals. Android uses off the self connectors, Apple is mostly Apple specific and that to me equates to cost, unnecessary cost for what I consider to be devices that are premium priced products. Key Features. Secure Email Container. TouchDown provides a highly secure container for corporate data with support for the full set of EAS policies, including Remote. Whats interesting is that the iPhone sort of set the template for all the subsequent smartphones to come. But Android competitors did throw on a back button. Upgradeability of the core OS. There is no comparison here, Apple wins this hands down. Android is so fragmented in this area to be nothing short of painful. If you have a well known device, like a Samsung Galaxy then its not so bad but have something like my china mobiles then expect to dice with death if you go the OS upgrade path, in this regard Android is very disappointing and requires a lot of technical knowledge to be able to upgrade. General usability. This will be biased towards Android because its what I have used most of the time but when I started doing things on the ipod I found it felt very restrictive. Nothing like a file browser to go searching around your device with but Im an Apple novice here ,maybe there is a way. Everything with Apple I found to be guided in the sense that your actions were restricted into what I felt was one way to do something, where as with Android you get to navigate all over your device at will using whatever tools you wish to use. Overall. I started with android when I purchased a Samsung Galaxy S. Is Microsoft Outlook for iOS and Android mobile devices ready to be considered as a user friendly and secure enterprise mobile email appMany considered it behind Apple in terms of overall integration. Ive purchased android china phones over the past few years and have seen a constant improvement in android, even in the china mobiles to rival what I have seen with Apple yes, Ive only experienced a gen 5 ipod touch. Innovation is coming to android first now, look at Apples latest phone, nothing really outstanding there I mean a fingerprint sensor, what a nuisance of an item IMO, I had one on a laptop and I disabled the dam thing. Android still has big issues, OS upgrading for example and its fragmentation. Different hardware used across androids means integration and testing is more difficult and this can show up with apps that might not be as stable as that on Apple, having said this however, it is getting better and Ive seen a lot of improvement over the years. Assistance. When I went looking around how to solve certain things for the ipod, I found the Apple forums very light on technical help compared to Android. Perhaps this is because of the level of technical knowledge required to drive each deviceOn Android, a lot of the device is quite technical compared to Apple who I felt a lot of the times were being answered by kids I stood on anyones toes there Dual sim. I have dual sim phones, I couldnt live without dual sim again. In the Apple world this simply doesnt exist. Overall, I have not seen anything on the Apple device I have that rivals anything on newer Androids, and when I mean newer, my latest Android device is 4. Apples lock in is becoming its downfall IMO. Once upon a time they were the integration king but not anymore. Real world example. I went to a family birthday a while back. There were a stack of elderly people there, many hovering around the late 7. All of them had Android devices ranging from small to large tablets. This is the extent of how far android has reached out and were capturing the market. I helped 2 of them understand how to connect to the wifi, the rest figured it out themselves. When I asked every one of them about their device they said its Android and then in the next breath mentioned it was cheap Price not functionality were behind their purchasing decisions. It was a little bit sad really, there were 7 people all lined up hammering away on their wireless devices at a birthday party for someone who had clicked 7. Perhaps they were messaging the birthday personI missed the photo opportunity to capture them all sitting there in a row on their devices Google is on a roll with Android but it better get the fragmentation under control quickly. Windows phone may be a flop at this stage but MS are seeing a large number of people dropping Google Apps and coming over to office. Apple are going the way of the dodo if they do not get costs down and start opening up their systems innovation is being driven from the consumer, not the manufacturer anymore. Lock in used to be good because it guaranteed a consistent user experience but not anymore, lock in now equates to too slow to react to new market directions the future is for compatibility and interoperability, not a single world view of an eco system thrust upon you by the manufacturermy 2c worth of Android compared to Apple with an ipod touch Gen 5. Sure its not an iphone but a lot of the functionality and dealing with Apple is somewhat similar. Heres my brief car analogy Android Your in the drivers seat of a sports car. News On AIR brings the Latest Top Breaking News on Politics, G 2. Cricket, Sports, Business, State,Formula One in INDIA, Regional Language Audio Bulletins, Regional Language scripts more. All donations towards the Prime Ministers National Relief FundPMNRF and the National Defence FundNDF are notified for 1. Section 8. 0G of the Income Tax Act,1.