Morgan Hightower

CSIT 101
Professor Redd
3/9/16

iPhone Devices V.S. Android, Which Provides More for the Public?
The first article discusses the long held debate over whether or not the technology
company Apple, or competing company Samsung, holds more dominance over the technological
device market. Although the true answer to this question lies in the opinion of those who use
these devices, statistical evidence can be used to determine which company possesses less
overall problems in terms of device functionality. The article Study finds that Android accounts
for 85% of all device failures discusses in percentage terms how Android devices in 2015 had
the highest rate of device failures across all technology companies. Shortly followed by Lenovo
and Motorola, Samsung (an Android company) held 27% of all device failures across their entire
line of technological devices. These failures include but are not limited to: battery charging
issues, touch screen malfunctions, microphone sensitivity, and most prominently camera
problems. This article shed a statistical perspective on the reliability of Android devices versus
iPhone devices.
The first article was found by using Google to search for articles revolving around the
validity of the iPhone/Android debate, specifically by using the News tab to narrow the search
to recently published news articles. In conducting the same search on two other search engines,
(Yahoo and AOL), Google proved to provide the most relevant and concise results. Rather than
providing the user with results on why iPhone or Android devices are more practical for
statistical reasons, both other search engines offered more subjective information on the debate;
along with results involving the release and comparison of the new Samsung Galaxy S7 to the
latest iPhone model. Overall, using Google did allot more specific results than using the other
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two search engines, more than likely because of the wide access to resources Google has in
comparison.
The article New Samsung Galaxy S7 vs. Apple iPhone 6s -- feature-by-feature
comparison was released on February 4th, 2016 and has since been updated periodically to
discuss the new features of the Samsung Galaxy S7 in comparison to the iPhone 6. The device
superiority debate is extremely relevant to modern technology given that both Apple and Android
hold the majority of the cellular device user base. The articles author is Anick Jesdanun, who
according to the article is supposedly a technological journalist. However, the website alone did
not provide a substantial amount of information on the validity of this claim. After further
research into the authors background, Jesdanun is in fact have a strong history of writing
technology related articles dating back from as early as 2004, often providing unbiased and
factual results. This in turn does render the author qualified to write about the subject of device
comparison. The overall purpose of this article was to analyze and compare the features of the
newer Samsung device to the latest iPhone, in turn informing the public as to what each device
holds and which one they should consider for themselves.
In order to find articles using the CCBC library databases, I used the keywords iPhone
and Samsung in order to narrow searches to articles that discussed one device company versus
the other. I expected that using a reference database to find articles on this particular topic would
be somewhat difficult only to be proven right. I chose to use the Proquest database because it
offered the widest range of results and was not limited to a single type or subject of articles. As
the Proquest database did offer a range of factual and statistical results that could be used to

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argue either side, it was particularly difficult to find articles that compared the two device
companies rather than discuss one individually. This on the readers part would prompt them to
do more separate research that would be compiled together subsequently into a single argument.
It was also significantly more difficult to find current journal articles on the subject because the
majority of information produced involving mobile technology is printed in news articles that
may not be necessarily considered scholarly. Overall, even though the database did provide
more scholarly results, it would be difficult to find information that related to this exact subject.

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CSIT 101
Professor Redd
3/9/16
Works Cited (MLA)

Epstein, Zac. "Have Apples Rivals Finally Stopped Copying the IPhone?" BGR. BGR Media, LLC, 23
Feb. 2016. Web. 07 Mar. 2016.
Heisler, Yoni. "Study Finds That Android Accounts for 85% of All Device Failures." BGR. BGR
Media, LLC, 23 Feb. 2016. Web. 07 Mar. 2016.
Jesdanun, Anick. "New Samsung Galaxy S7 vs. Apple IPhone 6s -- Feature-by-feature
Comparison." Los Angeles Daily News. LA Daily News, 24 Feb. 2016. Web. 07 Mar. 2016.
Kim, Y., Dwivedi, R., Zhang, J., & Jeong, S. R. (2016). Competitive intelligence in social media
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Misra, Shalini, et al. "The iPhone Effect: The Quality of in-Person Social Interactions in the
Presence of Mobile Devices." Environment and Behavior 48.2 (2016): 275. ProQuest. Web. 10
Mar. 2016.