Perhaps many of you wondered if there are other operating systems besides iOS and Android. The answer is - YES. Of course, there are a huge number of systems that no one has ever heard of. The two systems mentioned above have completely dominated this market. Hardly anyone has heard about such systems as BlackBerry, MeeGo or webOS. Although these are the most popular versions, not counting of course Android and iOS. Recently, there has been a lot of talk about trying to create more and more modern systems that will ensure security and at the same time will allow people freedom in modifications - it is very difficult to do, but if we succeed, we will certainly hear about it soon. Did any of you readers know, for example, that the first phone with Android system, which was created exactly in 2008, did not have a headphone jack .. and required an adapter ?!
Not luscious how everything changed in that short time. However, newer and newer updates mean that older phone models often lose their speed of task performance. In this category, iOS is better, as it updates its system less frequently, so that even old phones continue to function at an optimal speed. Interestingly, iOS was not called that all the time. Perhaps some of you remember that this name was introduced only with the fourth generation of this software. What was the name of this system before? iPhone OS.
However, when it comes to financial results (and this is the main statistic that is the most important for owners of Windows that owns Android), suffice it to say that each year much more mobile devices with Android are sold than other devices with Windows and iOS combined. It is estimated that Android controls approx. 85% of all devices such as smartphones or tablets.
Interestingly, in 2013, the US space agency NASA released several very cheap satellites called PhoneSats. They had several Android phones inside their housing. Even though all of these devices were destroyed shortly after entering the atmosphere, they still did an excellent job. This is because they fulfilled their task which was to send pictures from space. Thanks to this, we learned that very cheap equipment can be used to make photos and videos in space.