A compariosn of open and closed mobile platforms

The market of smart phone is growing at a remarkable rate and is one of the important emerging issues. People who use the smart phone go on increasing in the world. There are a lot of applications for the smart phone and they are more complicated. Therefore, various mobile platforms have been improved to meet such conditions. In this paper we consider desirable characteristics of open and closed mobile platforms for research. Based on these characteristics, we deal with two smart phone platforms: Android and iPhone.