Day to Day we are seeing increase in more and more apps available on both iOS and Android. When the first Android phone launched, the Apple App Store already had 10,000 apps, compared to Android’s several hundred. Android or iOS Comparison :

Both systems are not equivalent at any cost.Being first out of the gate, iOS got a lot of attention, with developers passing up Google’s unproven platform. iOS seems to remain the developer platform of choice, and there are a handful of popular iOS apps that Android lacks.

iOS Exclusive

iTunes

One of the best/worst thing about iOS is that it is integrated with iTunes. If u want to use any Apple product you are forced to install iTunes in your PC inspite the fact that iTunes is one of the premier places to find and purchase digital media. Both Amazon MP3 and Google’s recently announced Google Music Beta offer similar services as well as cloud storage for your personal music.You can still use iTunes to sync your music to an Android device, but without an official Android iTunes app, you’re S.O.L. when it comes to browsing and purchasing iTunes media on the go.

Plants vs Zombies

PopCap Games is easily one of the top developers. It has a handful of extremely popular games on the iOS platform, with some of the most well received being Peggle, Bejeweled 2, and Plants vs Zombies. Now that Android has gained so much ground on iOS (with something like 400,000 Android device activations per day), we are expecting a lot of iOS exclusive developers to cross the line and start creating compelling content for both platforms.

Cut the Rope

Cut the Rope is among Apple’s most popular game downloads. Unlike Plants vs Zombies, there appear to be no immediate plans to bring Cut the Rope to Android. Nonetheless, the Android Market does offer a handful of games that are remarkably similar to Cut the Rope. This is also the case with many other casual gaming titles on iOS; compared to the original iOS titles, the Android knockoffs range from being absolutely awful to surprisingly better than the original.

Skype (with Video Chat)

On the iPhone, Skype makes for a very popular app to those that would like to have a Facetime-like conversation without the limitation of being on a Wi-Fi connection. Plus, Skype allows one to video chat with non-Apple customers, meaning you can chat it up with your PC laptop-toting father. It also works well for cheap (or even free) international calls, text messages, and instant messaging. While Android does have an official Skype app, it lacks that integral video calling feature, despite it being promised to launch on several Verizon devices.

Android Exclusive

Third Party App Stores

Let’s switch gears and focus on Android-exclusive apps that one cannot download on an iOS device.

One of Android’s biggest advantages over iOS is the fact that it allows third party app stores. If you’d prefer not to use the Android Market, you still have options like SlideMe Market, GetJar, and Amazon’s Appstore, to name a few. It might make it a little more difficult to find certain apps that might be exclusive to one app store or another, but it also allows you to shop around. Amazon’s Appstore in particular offers all sorts of discounts and special sales on apps, as well as a new free app every day. If you’re rocking an iPhone or iPad, Apple’s App Store is your only choice for downloading software…unless you’re comfortable with voiding your warranty and jailbreaking your iDevice.

Google Maps (with Navigation)

Google Maps has actually been available for iOS since before Android was even announced, but ever since Android version 2.0, there has been one glaring difference: turn-by-turn navigation. This alone turns every compatible Android device into a formidable GPS navigation system, and due to the virtually unlimited resources behind Google Maps, many Android devices are actually better suited for the job than standalone GPS units. It’s not a runaway victory though; iOS still has a lengthy list of apps dedicated to the job of turn-by-turn navigation.

Adobe Flash

The Flash experience on a smartphone is crude to say the least; very few flash apps are designed with touch screen interfaces in mind. While the future of the Internet might lie in HTML5, the present is still very much reliant on Adobe Flash. Ads and video are still overwhelmingly based on Flash, and the move to HTML5 is still off on the horizon somewhere. Interestingly enough, most iOS users claim that they don’t miss Flash, yet SkyFire (an iOS browser that supports Flash video) is the most popular browser on the iOS platform.

Gaming Emulators

As far as gaming is concerned, iOS has a pretty convincing lead over Android (see Pop Cap Games and others), with one exception: gaming console emulators. Apple’s App Store policy strictly forbids apps that act as emulators, meaning users who want to play classic Nintendo, Sony and Sega games have to resort to jailbreaking their devices and voiding warranties in order to have access to such apps. Android allows you to install third party apps, so emulators will always be available, even if the Android Market disallows them all. The best part is that you’ll never have to void your warranty to install them (for most devices).

Chrome to Phone

Another Google creation, Chrome to Phone lets you take any webpage you’re browsing on your desktop or laptop and push it directly to your phone. Originally this was exclusive to the Chrome browser, but FireFox extensions have popped up that allow it as well. Considering the length of some URLs and the difficulties of typing on a smartphone, it turns out to be a very handy tool. Creative and innovative tools like this are exactly where Android shines. As an open platform, it appeals to those who might have unique and previously unexplored concepts with the potential to turn into very useful tools.

Android or iOS Comparison Conclusion

As far as apps are concerned, iOS does still hold a lead over Android. Despite Apple’s arguably larger app library, nearly every popular iOS app has an Android counterpart, but the opposite is a little less true. There are a handful of iOS apps that borrowed from Android creations, but the majority of Android exclusive apps remain so simply because Apple chooses not to allow them.

iOS’s true lead comes from the fact that it still holds the majority of developer attention. This means that most apps come to iOS first and are later ported over to Android if they prove successful. Massive adoption rates of Android devices are starting to tip that scale in the other direction, though. Ultimately, the creation of new tools and APIs will make it possible to develop for both iOS and Android at the same time, yielding fairly equivalent developer interest in both platforms.

The deciding factor may very well come down to games. For casual gaming, iOS has a huge advantage over Android, but Android’s inclusion of gaming emulators combined with gaming focused devices like the Xperia Play results in a bit of a wild card. Given Google’s recent push (more of a hard shove) to bring gaming interest to Android, more games should be coming to the OS in the near future. In the end, we see mobile gaming like we see “traditional” console gaming, meaning some titles will be exclusive to certain platforms (iOS, Android, WP7, etc.) but developers will eventually have the know-how and the tools to creative compelling content for both platforms at the same time.