One major thing that sets Android apart
from other mobile operating systems is the ability to sideload apps — that is, install apps that aren't in Google's official Play Store.
The aim of providing Office apps on
other mobile operating systems apart from Windows Phone appears to expand its coverage as well as to compete against other mobile productivity apps such as Polaris Office, OfficeSuite and WPS Office.
Now, almost five months on from this cash injection, Wrike is debuting its project management tool for iOS and Android with native apps, while its browser - based version will open it up to
other mobile operating systems too.
Samsung mobiles believes that their proprietary Bada 2.0 OS is ready to compete
with other mobile operating system and already has about 40k apps ready to be downloaded from the Bada Store.
While regular smartphone users who choose an Android device might not be as interested in customizing their mobile experience as more hardcore Android fans, there are plenty of buyers who chose Android over iOS or
other mobile operating systems exactly because they have the liberty of doing more things on Android than on anything else, including rooting the device.
Amazon's Kindle app for Android is similar to Kindle
on other mobile operating systems, like the iPhone and BlackBerry, including support for both portrait and landscape orientations.
The Android platform has been targeted with malware more than
any other mobile operating system, however with the latest Jelly Bean software version, Google doing more than ever to keep users safe.
Is there anything inherently less secure about Android compared to
other mobile operating systems?
Unfortunately, when people with the updated versions of iOS sent the new emoji to people with older versions of iOS, rather than just display an empty placeholder (as in common on
other mobile operating systems or in communications between platforms), the older versions of iOS tried to do a very strange job translating the new emoji.
All other mobile operating systems (Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile, BlackBerry, Tizen, and the rest) now have less that 0.1 percent of the phone market.
It gave us a notification center, Cortana, transparent tiles, Wi - Fi Sense, Data Sense, and everything else that
other mobile operating systems might have that Windows Phone 8 didn't.
It's ahead of
every other mobile operating system when it comes to kid - friendly features and parental controls.
One of Android's biggest strengths relative to
other mobile operating systems is how simple it is to sideload apps that aren't hosted on the Google Play Store.
What differentiates Android from
all other mobile operating systems is surely the freedom to customize it the way the user wants.