Is the grass always greener on the other side? At least, that's what Apple wants Android owners to believe year in and year out. Apple continually insists that it offers the best games and apps, but is that really the case? And are folks who use the Android operating system rather than iOS really missing out on anything great?

Back in the summer of 2013, application testing company uTest actually ran a series of tests to answer this very question. At the time of uTest's study, Android's Google Play and iOS's App Store hosted around 800,000 applications each, but many people felt that Apple's offerings were of a higher quality.

uTest employed a complex algorithm called Applause to crawl through (or sort in layman's terms) every live app on both Android and iOS.

"We look for two things. One, did it have a statically different bearing on the perceived app quality, the level of user satisfaction. Second, did the keywords or key phrases that we are crawling intuitively fit into this bucket. So, for performance for example, there are really clean words like crash or freeze or hang," uTest's Matt Johnston remarked.

uTest eventually concluded that the App Store contained superior applications than Google Play carried in areas such as games, entertainment, lifestyle and sports. To further delve into their findings, Apple scored higher in all but two of the 11 categories tested. Android had the edge when it came to medical and productivity apps, though.

A more recent study conducted by investment bank Piper Jaffray came to a much different conclusion. While it doesn't mention uTest's findings, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster does disagree with the assessment that Android apps are somehow inferior. Munster said that there was no "point of differentiation" among application quality. By "differentiation," he means that the experience one has with an Android and iOS app isn't that great. And in fact, Android apps have better reviews on average than their iOS counterparts.

Munster said that, "the app ecosystem has transitioned to where it no longer matters how many apps each OS has, but rather the satisfaction the user gets out of them." He went on to add: "going forward we can compare where the apps were and where they currently stand from a user's perspective."

If one thing is for certain, this debate will last as long as Apple and Google still make mobile operating systems.

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