#2 Open source

Android scores high in this part. Being an open source operating system, third party developers are free to use the OS to build customized products for the users. But when you come to Apple, one of the most closed operating systems in the world, the word ‘customization’ doesn’t even exist.

The open nature of Android had helped it to get into many areas you couldn’t have imagined. There are gaming consoles that run on Android, there are washing machines, fridge and even micro-wave ovens that are powered by Android.

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#1 Google

Google, as a company won’t be having any direct benefits from the Android. But just think about the amount of work Google puts into it, the data and services Google possess and the applications like Google Maps and Google Now, which the company developed utilizing the data. Also Google is working on interesting projects like Google Glass, which will fuel the acceptance of Android to a wider mass. Meanwhile Apple, as a company recently had none interesting projects of these kind or they donot have the amount of data like Google to play with.