The former head of Microsoft's Windows Division published a blog post in Monday

July 9 News, according to foreign media BusinessInsider reported, former Microsoft Windows department Head of Steven Sinnowski (Steven Sinofsky) published a blog post in Monday, through the comparison between the mobile operating systems, Explains why the best apps today still prefer iOS and Android platforms.

Sinofsky points out that most developers choose to develop applications for a platform, the most important factor is the development tools that the platform can provide.

The Apple iOS platform is the most familiar to many developers, and it's enough to be a development team's first choice for the platform as a development object. However, if developers want to gain voice control in their applications, Android is the best option at the moment.

Even with simple apps for accessing and sharing photos, although the functionality is not different on iOS and Android, the style that the application presents is still a problem that developers must consider. For example, an app designed for Android will only make people feel "out of place" if it is ported to the iOS platform intact.

With the increasing emphasis on the features of the mobile platform, it is no longer able to meet the needs of the market by simply adding multi-platform support to the application.

All of these factors combine to force today's software companies to set up separate development teams for each mobile platform, Sinofsky said. This adds difficulty to the development of the product-because it is guaranteed to be the same application with consistent functionality, but the product is done by different development teams.

The same problem is less serious on platforms other than iOS and Android. Because when developers make a choice between Google and Apple, the problem is usually "who is first?" and since the market for BlackBerry and Windows Phone is too small, many developers even consider abandoning the market directly. And such decisions are eventually reflected in the application of various platforms in the mall.