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Apps running on Android OS are more stable than iOS apps |
laffen
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This might come as a surprise to many of you, but it seems like iOS apps crash more than Android apps
Esato News
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masseur
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it is a surprise. the only time I have ever seen a crash on iOS is when I am running an app on a new version of iOS when that app hasn't yet been updated and released for changes to iOS.
Most apps usually work from one version of iOS to the next, but sometimes something unavoidable does change to cause an incompatibility.
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Miss UK
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The only app I have probs with is
Surprise Surprise Facebook
On my phone statistics Facebook is logged
On there 3x or more times with bug issues
It used to have issues on android to
But iOS more complaints under the apps
Feedback lol
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laffen
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iOS does not inform the user of crashed apps does it? Android does. Maybe Android users are more used to seeing "No reponse from app ***. Do you want to wait, or force close?" |
masseur
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in iOS, if an APP misbehaves, iOS closes it and you unexpectedly return to the dekstop.
Anyway, without joining criticism (which I may now do as it looks interesting) its hard to judge these stats.
If an App sells 100,000 on iOS and 50,000 on android, and it crashes 5% of the time on each, clearly iOS would come out as worse. Thats the nature of statistics and that is what the graph in the opening post appears to show: i.e. crashes per app per platform.
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Bonovox
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I see masseur's point in that if something sells more then you hear more complaints about it. Like more donwloads means more crash reports
Phone?? What phone?? |
laffen
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On 2012-02-03 19:37:30, masseur wrote:
If an App sells 100,000 on iOS and 50,000 on android, and it crashes 5% of the time on each, clearly iOS would come out as worse.
Not true.
It is only about percentage here, not number of times an app has crashed. If an app crashes 5% on iOS and 5% on Android, it crashes equally number of time. The data set is normalized.
Check out the graph with Crashes by OS Version Normalized
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masseur
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apologies. I did not fully comprehend the details in the news item and merely based my reply on the opening post details.
However, having now fully comprehended the news item there seems to be some disclaimers such as the speed that developers can release fixes to android software vs iOS, how much testing goes into each o/s release, and also had android ICS been a factor then these statistics may well have been quite different.
Again... such are the issues involved in showing simple graphs to try and make some point.
However, more than these... my research also now shows that the company providing these stats (crittercism) were a startup in 2010 which received significant funding from google in mid 2011.
That alone makes them no longer impartial IMHO.
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laffen
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On 2012-02-04 00:17:18, masseur wrote:
However, more than these... my research also now shows that the company providing these stats (crittercism) were a startup in 2010 which received significant funding from google in mid 2011.
I know. That is why I mentioned it in the article 
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chunkybeats
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maybe Google should do an Apple and use false advertising/marketing and claim that this is the best OS ever!! |
Run_dawn10
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I've had apps crash on various instances on both OS. But at least Android gives a more desktop-like Application Not Responding notification.
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djin
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I too have experience more frequent crashes in ios, especially ios 5 than my android 2.2 . I think the apps were more stable with ios4.. Also it could be that i use apps alot more in ios as compared to android since I feel i can do most of the things at os level in android as compared to ios... Hence more crashes experienced?
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etaab
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Like this even matters though. The actual number of crashes by either platform is really small when compared to old operating systems like Symbian. I cannot believe these people even performed this kind of research. Total waste of time imo.
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Bonovox
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And money?? Does research cost money??
Phone?? What phone?? |
masseur
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@etaab, I guess this is just a by-product of their main service, which is to provide developers with in app crash reporting of unhandled program crashes. It would take little extra effort to collate the data being sent to developers.
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Posted: 2012-02-03 16:01
K550 (second hand 2009-2010), 
