In the developer's eyes why Android is always the backup of IOS, who can laugh to the last?

While the Android platform is now overtaking IOS in terms of user base and market share, the latter is still the preferred platform for developers to release apps. In this respect, with 20 relevant experience of the U.S. Science and technology news site ZDNet it a few days ago, "What is the Android" for the topic of this problem to comb ...

As Apple has not launched any new products in a longer period of time, product sales are falling, and faced with increasingly fierce competition from Google's Android platform, outsiders are inevitably beginning to question the company's innovation and leadership capabilities after the death of Mr. Jobs. According to previous media reports, Apple is expected to launch a new generation of mobile operating system IOS 7 in early September this year. For many, the launch of this operating system does not seem to change the fact that Android is already ahead of Apple in terms of market share and user base.

However, not all users think Android is a flawless product. Caleb-Kraft, the chief community Editor of the electronic information website EE Times, who has extensive experience in Linux and server systems, has decided to abandon its Android devices and turn to the IOS camp.

Earlier, Kraft bought a Nook Color reader, a Nexus 7 tablet and a second-hand first-generation IPad, hoping to persuade himself to give up Apple through this alternative comparison, but the end result backfired.

Recently, Kraft in the EE Times Community Forum revealed his final decision to give up Android reasons: Poor Bluetooth support, hardware fragmentation, operating system and the application of countless bugs, hardware configuration, and so on.

"Bugs in the operating system and applications are the most annoying places to be." Since I bought the Nexus 7 home, the device's touchscreen screen will fail at least once a day, sometimes it runs very smoothly, and then suddenly there is no response, leaving my fingers to slide the device on the screen. In this case, I can only keep my fingers in one place for a long time to wait for the system to recognize, but sometimes it will be mistaken to think that I made a multi-touch gesture. While rebooting the device can solve the problem effectively, restarting the device while you are doing a job is also a headache. Kraft wrote.

Of course, Nexus 7 is not a good-for-nothing, because the device more user-friendly hardware configuration so that people can be very relieved to give it to the elderly in the home to use. But for an already-battle-hardened tech-media man, such a performance is clearly not enough to impress Kraft.

"If I was engaged in a job that had to be written in a certain time, I might not be so picky about the problems with the equipment." However, during my trial I found that there were many problems with the device. First, I need to work with the device because I can't finish writing a 1000-word article on the touch screen. Second, I don't have enough confidence in the reliability of the device at work. Kraft wrote.

It's important to note that the weaknesses of Android devices are generally the perfect place for Apple's hardware and software products. For example, for users, the IPhone and IPad have always been able to give a very convenient, reliable impression, Apple's supporting peripherals are rich in products, with tens of thousands of excellent applications, and they are generally very few bugs. As Kraft said, "IOS users can spend most of their time working on their own work, rather than getting their devices into working conditions."

On the other hand, according to the 2013 first-quarter developer survey Report by Forrester, a leading market research agency, Android is still the preferred platform for developers to release apps, although it lead the user base and market share. Some analysts believe that the main reason for this situation is that the Android market is still a lot of problems, and the simple user base does not necessarily mean that consumers are willing to pay for the application of the platform.

For example, the data given by app Promo, an internationally renowned marketing company, shows that Android has more developers than iOS, but some 40% of developers do not earn a dime, but developers perform much better on the IOS platform.

"Pushing yourself into the IOS camp is not a single factor, but a corollary to the many complaints about Android devices," Kraft said.

Obviously, Kraft is not the only consumer with the idea.