Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35555638-20190802165506/@comment-9605025-20190802210852

Jackthomasmoore wrote: Android iOS Just so you know, there is no such thing as "Android iOS". An operating system, OS, is what provides basic interaction between software (ex. Firefox, Safari, Chrome, PowerPoint) and hardware (the physical components of the device). iOS is the OS for mobile devices made by Apple. Android is a different OS developed by Google specifically for mobile devices but used by many different mobile device manufacturers (ex. Samsung, Motorola, LG). Windows is yet another OS made by Microsoft and used by various computer manufacturers (ex. Dell, Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba). UNIX was originally developed by Bell Labs but has since spawned numerous variants made by other organizations (including Apple's macOS). There is also the UNIX-inspired Linux which itself also has quite a few variants (ex. CentOS, Ubuntu). There are probably a lot of lesser-known ones I haven't mentioned.