Comparing Apples and Androids

“A tale of two platforms.

“The iPhone ushered in the new era of smartphones — with
an eye toward form and steadily updating the function, the iPhone
has cemented itself as a market leader.

“Not to be outdone by the iCupertino gang, Google has steadily
improved Android over a series of software releases most recently
with the release of Android 2.1 running on their own hardware, the
Nexus One.

“The approach between these two giants could not be more
divergent:

“Apple owns everything from top to bottom.

“Google takes an open source stance, more or less.”

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