Steve Wozniak, nothing more and nothing less than the co-founder of Apple, and the only one of the two who is still alive, after the death of Steve Jobs, has been the one who has opened the box of thunder by stating that those of Cupertino should launch an iPhone with Android. Something that is impossible. But what if Apple really became an Android manufacturer?
Could it be possible?
Ok, we can all say that this is not going to happen and that it is impossible. But to tell the truth, the possibility is there. In fact, what many iOS users criticize would be one of Apple's greatest assets, the great ability to customize Android. Companies like Samsung, Sony, LG, personalize their smartphones giving the interface the appearance they want it to have. Many times we criticize those interfaces because they make worse the work that Google has already done. But what if that ability to customize a smartphone was used by Apple so that the iPhone with Android and the iPhone with iOS were the same? We would be talking about smartphones that have the same graphical interface, but with different applications. There are already many users who have developed interfaces very similar to Apple's. If it were the Cupertino company itself that took on this task, it would surely make iOS and Android exactly the same. In addition, since Google's operating system is totally free, there would be no problem if it was used by Apple. But what's more, the company founded by Steve Jobs would even have the possibility of creating its own application store for its iPhone with Android. The freedom of this operating system allows it.
No more wrong judgments
What I like least about the discussions between Android and iOS users, apart from the insults between the two, is that you are never fair, you never make comparisons that can really lead to conclusions. Smartphones are compared for their technical characteristics, and that doesn't make any sense, because they work on different platforms. With an iPhone with Android, developed as developed by Apple, we could really see who has made the best mobile in terms of components, and we could compare the operation of video games or applications in a real way, in them conditions, in order to evaluate whether one or the other is really better.
What would your sales be?
Now, the real question would be in the reaction of the market. How would an iPhone with Android be received? Would there be iOS users who would buy this because they prefer Google's operating system? We would have the same possibilities as on an iOS iPhone, but without the applications from the App Store. Even if Apple did not allow rooting it, it could be done easily, and users could make modifications to the very appearance of the interface, something that is more complicated in iOS. Would this make users opt for Android? It would allow us to know if users who buy the iPhone do so simply because it is an iPhone, or because they really prefer iOS. It would be a very simple way to know if those users prefer Android or iOS.
What would have to happen for Apple to launch an iPhone with Android?
However, it is difficult to think that this possibility could become a reality. Apple's way of acting has never been in that line, quite the opposite. Most likely, they will not change their philosophy for quite a few years, and by then it is most likely that Android and iOS are no longer what they are today, or even no longer exist.
The only possibility that exists is that Apple will drop a lot in sales and in prestige, something like what has happened to Nokia or BlackBerry. This fall would lead them to have to make radical decisions and opting for Android as an operating system would be one of them. However, if we take as an example precisely Nokia or BlackBerry, we realize that they never usually choose the enemy before dying. They prefer to stick with their philosophy, even if that means dying or disappearing, even when the entire market cries out for them to launch an Android phone. In this case, in addition, it does not happen. What's more, it could be said that most Android users are very reluctant to buy an iPhone, and iOS users will never ask that their mobile have Android.
Even so, it is curious to think about the possibility that this could occur. Great figures of engineering, such as Steve Wozniak, they have raised it as something positive. But let's not forget that Wozniak was an engineer, not a salesman. Precisely, marketing is the one that rules today in the large multinationals, a bad thing that many technology fans are not counting on.
If they have not taken a MAC with Windows except an iPhone with android.