This year has been a full of surprises in the world of mobile technology. Talking about two most popular and demanding operating systems for mobile is like they both have been favourite and bringing competition for each other. Both have received updates in the form of iOS 10 and Android Nougat, so let’s take a look at how they win the battle from each other.
Google recently released latest version for its mobile OS – Android Nougat 7 and also the Apple has launched iOS 10.
User Interface
The user interface for both the operating systems has taken a major fix regarding how refined it looks after various changes. Apple put highlights on interaction using push touch on devices, where it imported sensors inside the display to encounter the amount of pressure being applied. And the feature of ‘Rise to wake’ is equal to Android’s ‘Always on’ display.
Android 7 Nougat has transformed the navigation bar buttons to incorporate a new function of ‘Quick Switch’ which can get at by tapping twice the last button to go to the last app that you were running. Nougat does not have new things regarding latest ways to relate to this content.
Notifications
Apple iOS notification system is one of perfect notification systems in the mobile OSs with a quick look at what is running on your iOS device. Apple is improving the experience with the intelligence to communicate with your notifications, right from your lock screen. This latest notification system deals with third force apps as well where Mobile Application Developer can push notifications to live updates.
Android Nougat has also enhanced the notification system, letting the users have look on the notifications without opening the app. Google modified the notification system completely in Nougat with smaller fonts, uniform width, and notifications arranged nicely according to apps. Users can even pick down the notification and give the response to messages straight from the notification, without opening the exact messaging app.
Digital Assistants
Apple’s personal assistant is Siri, which is already a unique concept and besides all this, it is updating in each version with lot o capabilities. Users can book food, can send messages to a specific contact in a particular third force app like Whatsapp among usual things like conducting an online search, ask for location, schedules, set reminders, alarms, notifications and making calls by telling Siri.
Talking about Google’s AI based digital assistant also launched voice search but still does not have much automation, but the offering is regularly improving with each update, and we can observe in an absolute way with the forthcoming Google Pixel lineup.
Conclusion
Both iOS 10 and Android Nougat promise amazing and extending latest features. Apple appears to be covering the gap on Google regarding widgets and third-force app integration, while Google is reportedly resolving app icon shortcuts and app notification groupings like Apple.
We cannot say which OS is the more perfect and advanced until we get it in our hands. But there’s a fair chance that both of them are continuously making the world crazy by updating the latest versions of OS with brand new features.