For someone with as much experience as you claim should know, Android is the OS (like iOS). Droid is a motorola trade mark.
And for someone who claims objectivity, you sure are doing a good imitation of a apple-holic.
I know very well the difference and if you want to get technical which you seem to want to do droid is actually a trademark of lucasfilms or lucasarts licensed by Motorola for their products.
Your attempt at claiming my shorthand shows a lack of knowledge or appleholic ism is nonsense.
I have been doing have development in Java since it’s pre alpha days, the language upon which android apps are built. I would love to say that android is the better OS and had equivalent products and while it has vastly improved over the years it is still to this day not on par from a usability and stability perspective. Believe me Objective C is an obtuse language that I personally feel should have died a deserved death in the 80s, but for good or ill it’s what you have to use to develop native iphone apps.
With nearly 20 years of java development under my belt I should be exclaiming the virtues of android, but as much as I may like to say that it’s just not true, at least not from a user and stability experience. Yes the openness of the OS means I can do things I can’t under IOS but it also means I’m going to have to deal with every damn fragmentation out there when my product goes live, or better yet deal with a new issue with every new device thaT comes out.
I state my opinion as someone who is actively developing and earning money of both platforms and been developing software commercially for nearly 20 year, and I can say unequivocally that when judged from the simple criteria “it just works” apple wins the smart phone OS battle hands down.
If I ever had any bias about apple it was nearly 15 years of those 20 hating them, and as a pure developer the company pisses me off routinely when they just arbitrarily change something etc etc. And don’t even get me started about my opinion of objective c. But despite all that they have the better consumer option from “it just works” perspective.