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what's up prizefight fans i'm brian tom and this is an epic Apple versus Google tries fight you'll be talking about when it's over it's a prize five foot shout between iOS 6.1 three and pure Android jelly bean 4.2 - we're bringing the whole mobile team on for this one our judges for this fight are senior editor Jessica Duke it out Dholpur senior editor Bryant boom-boom Bennet associate editor Lynn by the Phi D LA and myself real Indian pound now we'll take all four judges scores and average them out to the nearest tenth each round the final prizefight score will be an average of all rounds using the same system it's a four round beat down round one is designed do looks matter when it comes to a mobile operating system you bet it does and all of our judges agree that iOS is easy to use but it doesn't look much different than every previous version of iOS with its rounded corner icons now in some of its specific apps it still uses a skeuomorphism design where a note app looks like a notepad or something like Game Center has a felt poker table design I know iOS fans if it ain't broke don't fix it but iOS needs a major overhaul to be fresh sleek and sexy again now jelly bean has a clean modern design that looks and feels like it's from the future and it's consistent across the board with its native apps its menu transitions and even something like the lockscreen add some visual eye candy jellybean gets a perfect 5 and iOS gets a 4 next round is user interface and navigation we set it over and over that iOS has the easiest pick-up-and-play user interface on any mobile device to date and that won't change you can create folders for multiple apps and it has more functions like swiping down from the top for notifications that is one of the few truly customizable parts of iOS it gets a little more advanced with double tapping the home button for currently used apps and controls or holding it down to access Siri for its voice features but its biggest drawback is that it's so locked down that real customization is pretty much non-existent now jelly bean admittedly isn't the easiest operating system to pick up and play and you'll have to learn how to use some of its features but it's not that bad and there's a point where you want your phone to do more and a good amount of people are there customization is king here with creating folders for apps Android introduced the notifications pulldown but also being able to customize your home screens with specific widgets that give you more control over the phone and you can even customize your type of lockscreen this is really a personal preference of ease of use versus more customization and eventually there will be one with both but iOS takes this round with the 4.8 and jelly beans gets a four it's after averaging two rounds jelly bean has the edge next round is features iOS 6 kept many features from iOS 5 the same improving some and redoing others like maps now Apple Maps has turn-by-turn directions but it falls behind lacking public transit directions there's no Google Streetview and maps that still aren't as accurate right now sure it's 3d can look pretty good with that flyover feature but it's still more style than substance now Google Maps has stayed the same and improved on their foundation and is still the undisputed best Maps app on mobile with accurate turn-by-turn navigation public transit options and you can even use compass mode on Street View Siri is more useful with sports movies and food recommendations but it still isn't accurate enough and it takes way too long to get information back from its servers what do I mean by that who is Bruce Lee that's what I mean now Google's voice recognition for search and voice the text is so much faster and more accurate and Google now for local happenings around you traffic and weather is their answer to Siri then we have iOS is passbook that has some potential but no one is really using it and the lack of NFC hurts where jellybean brings native NFC support with Android Beam four wirelessly sending content from one phone to another although it could be faster and you have Google Wallet built into the OS as well they still need to perfect it but iOS doesn't have anything like it baked in both OS is pulled from their ecosystem Apple's iCloud and Google services sync your mail contacts and calendars and wirelessly uploading of photos as well Apple calls there's photo stream Google calls it Instant Upload now iOS is FaceTime is more integrated into the OS for video calls and you can use any third-party app on jellybean like Skype but jelly bean brings even more like a gesture based keyboard typing option that actually works really well and the notifications drop-down that allows you to respond to emails from it and have quick access to your key services on the phone and please don't tell me iOS is gamecenter is really a legit feature jellybean takes round three with a perfect 5 and iOS 6 gets a 3.8 so after three rounds jellybean is ahead by half a point what is anyone's fight the final round that decides it all is ecosystem Apple pretty much created the most successful content ecosystem and it all started with the foundation of iTunes where you'll still have the biggest library of content for music TV shows and movies and iTunes exclusives are bonus tracks that you just can't find on other stores then you throw in the App Store and it's almost unfair it's really no secret that when developers build an app they typically do it for iOS first and then Android and that's not Google's fault it's just the reality Google was late to the content party but it started to catch up and the Play Store is now a legitimate option for media content like movies music books and magazines iOS takes the final round with the perfect 5 and jellybean gets a four so let's average out all four rounds and enterprise buy the Google jumped out early Apple fought back hard in the final round but it just wasn't enough and Android jelly bean takes this price buy four point five a four point four and is your prize buy it winner these are two amazing operating systems that will only get better but there's competition from Windows Phone 8 and Samsung's Tizen coming soon i'm brian tom thanks for watching we'll catch you guys next time for another prizefight