Why iPhone 6 and iOS 8 cannot replace Android

It has been a while now that iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and iOS 8 have been released. Until the previous versions of iPhone, the phones had much smaller screens as compared to Android phones that were termed as Phablets since they look a combination of phones and tablets. Now that Apple has launched a larger phone and a more customisable operating system in the form of iOS 8 (as compared to the previous versions of iOS), Apple is trying to bridge the gap that has been created by bigger and better Android Phones.

However despite the new phones from Apple, these still cannot replace the quintessential Android Phones. Android Phones for one have much better resolution and pixel per inch. This makes the images look sharper and therefore the display of several of the Android devices are much better than those of the iPhones.

Secondly, Android phones are much cheaper that iPhones. When it comes to value and utility, Android devices are much cheaper than iPhones. Android phones are much more cost effective and this makes them a better ‘value for money’ proposition. In most of the cases, high specification Android phones come at almost half the price of an iPhone 6.

Batteries of iPhones cannot be removed and if there is any issue with the battery, the process to replace it is much more complex. Similarly, iPhones only sport internal memory and do not have slots for expanding memory by inserting external memory cards. Also, most of the Android phones have more RAM than iPhones.

Customisation is the most important feature of Android phones. Android is open source and it is easy to make applications compatible with Android as compared to iOS. Likewise, due to its open architecture, Android is much more flexible and robust.