Gadgetory

today in here with the comparison between the iPhone and iPod Touch app store versus the Android Market so there are a lot of key differences between these two philosophies generally the iPhone App Store tends to be a bit more of a curated experience it doesn't really let as many apps in there don't have this quite as much freedom however to play they do tend to be a little bit higher quality compared to the Android Market which well sometimes you might find a little bit of a lower quality at you can pretty much get anything you want including emulators you know different scans I mean there's a wide wide variety of applications so what I'm going to do for you guys today is do a little bit of a comparison show you have some of the pros and cons of each app store okay so when you first open up both app stores you'll find a fairly similar interface so both allow you to take a look at some of the features so on the iPhone the iPod Touch you'll notice there are a few things such as app of the week game of the week and you'll see that there's a wide variety of different featured apps and there's also a category for what's hot which is basically the same thing and you also can use genius which I actually don't use but if you'd like to use it you can allow it to take a look at the apps that you've bought and suggest new things based on what you've purchased previously on the other hand the Android Market looks a little bit nicer as you can see here it's got a little bit of a smoother interface if you will you also do have the featured apps and something you should notice is that a lot of these apps are free and that's going to be a recurring theme in this Android app so do tend to be free a little bit more often but I will get into that in just a minute up top there's a little carousel so you can take a look at the some more featured apps so anything jumps out at you you can take a look at it you can also sort by games you can sort by apps which is of course just all games we can search by character specific apps now that is obviously going to depend on your carrier however on this one obviously we do have that so over here if we come over to the iPhone you'll see that we have a few different things as far as the top 25 in fact we can go ahead and go into the apps and is the same on the Android phone so if we want to just take a look at the top page on both it should be a pretty interesting thing you know over here you can see a lot of this is like the ROM managers in fact I'll open this up and that is a really interesting thing as obviously to get this these kind of features in a iPhone or iPod touch you basically need to jailbreak and now there's nothing wrong against jailbreaking the fact i jailbreak pretty much always but it is much nicer if you're into customizing modding tweak not kind of good stuff on your phone Android definitely has you beat here obviously some of these do pay or rather are paid but it's not that big a deal and certainly it's a lot easier just to pay couple of dollars and get all the features you want rather than having to spend a lot of time and try to jailbreak and worry about stuff breaking out some good stuff now as far as the top paid apps actually let me back up a little bit here and go over to the games and show you guys because typically games are well obviously they're not the number one thing but if you take a look at the IRS App Store all you see is games pretty much now let's take a look at what the apps themselves look like so in fact we'll pull up the same app fruit and engine on here as well as on the Android phone as you guys can see here I definitely do prefer the interface definitely does look a lot nicer the app stores pretty much look the same for the past couple years I mean it's certainly not bland you can take a look at the ratings you can see the price if I just want to tap on that could buy it and there's just a bunch of information about it and all that kind of good stuff if we scroll down we can take a look at screenshots then again we can go report problem and read ratings now over here on the Android phones you can see here we can read the same a description in fact I supply the exact same description is over here you take a look also you can take a look at a screenshot so that looks good to you oh yeah come on buy that app and you also share and take a look at reviews once again so the way they work is very similarly on those far as purchasing apps it does work a little bit differently now if you have an iPhone and iPod Touch using the App Store you have a couple of different options now that is tied your iTunes account so for example let's say you have an iTunes gift card of course you can go to the store and buy 15 25 etc etc gift cards we can just load that up no problem using that or you can have it hooked up to your debt credit or debit card if I want to buy this app just have it automatically deducted from your account it works pretty similarly on the Android side however it is a little bit different as there's no you know gift cards or anything like that you pretty much do you have to hook it up to your account but I found that it's a pretty painless procedure on both sides now I've just got to say this straight up there's no defense winter Android is not a million times better than iOS and iOS is nine million times better than Android both of these are really mature app stores they both have in the tens and ability actually probably hundreds of thousands of apps so you're not going to have any issues the only really reason that you would have a major issue is if you're looking for one specific app that might be on you the iPhone not Android or vice versa but overall I found that both app stores are really nice user-friendly intuitive to use and they also have a wide variety of apps now as far as the pricing goes that is something I really want to kind of dance right now because it of course it does vary you know hugely between the devices I'm in fact what you guys to saw there one apples a dollar twenty and while it's $0.99 there so occasionally you know it might be a little bit more spensive here or there but overall I actually found that Android apps tend to be free in fact a lot of the Angry Birds which are 99 cents on the App Store are free on Android although they of course do have ads so you know you're gonna have a little bit of a trade-off but anyway if you're going you know trying to compare between getting an iPhone or an Android phone just based on the app store it's going to be kind of a hard call the Android Market is definitely a lot more open you can find stuff such as routing and all kinds of different stuff like ROM managers in addition to your wide variety of games and standard apps on the other hand though the iPhone definitely does have a bit more of a curated experience it's not as open you're not going to see the same amount of things you know such as to the stuff that like the wrong managers and all that kind of stuff but what you will find is a lot of really nice polished add some a lot of nice games so no matter which way you go I really find it hard to go wrong