Anecdotally I had noticed stuff crashed on my ipod much more than my 2.3 android device.

 

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Originally Posted by DCSRM

Anecdotally I had noticed stuff crashed on my ipod much more than my 2.3 android device.

I was somewhat surprised to see just how many crashes were attributed to old iOS versions (quite a bit of fragmentation), but I was very much surprised to see that iOS applications crashed 2x as much in the second quartile (which is the median of the statistics). Despite the article title, I expected to see results that were completely opposite due to Apple's curating of its app collection.

 

This is going to ruffle some biased feathers but ONLY if they don't read the article properly.

 

Huh never would have thought apps should crash that much. In the past two years of owning an iPod Touch 4G and iPhone 4S, I have never seen any apps crash without it saying "Winterboard has crashed sorry for the inconvenience".

 

I got plenty with 5.0 in my iPad 2

 

not surprised....iOS 5 is painful to use on my 3GS

 

I just know my facebook and words with friends apps crash like its their job on my ipod. I don't have any experience with android so i can't comment on that one. Interesting study though.

 

I've only really had Cydia apps crash on me. Can't think of a app from the app store that has ever crashed on me.
Same with Android I've never had a app from the market crash on me.

Makes me wonder what these guys are trying to do with their devices lmao.

 

i havent had any issues with apps on my ipod touch 4g. now that i have upgraded to iOS 5, my ipod touch will lag sometimes. especially when i have music playing and im doing other things on it. i never had that problem with the previous version of iOS.

 

Interesting. I've had my 4S for about a month and have had probably two crashes total so far. Happened far more often on my previous Android phones :| Nowhere often enough to be a deal-breaker but still noticeable...

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Originally Posted by ZealotKi11er

I got plenty with 5.0 in my iPad 2

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Originally Posted by Giac

not surprised....iOS 5 is painful to use on my 3GS

My guess would be 256MB of RAM just isn't cutting it these days.

 

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Originally Posted by Malcolm

My guess would be 256MB of RAM just isn't cutting it these days.

Maybe not. It's weird though the App devs program their apps knowing the devices only have a limited amount of RAM.

To the guy's saying the IOS 5 is rough on their devices: If your jailbroken make sure your Cydia apps are compatible with your IOS and that they are up to date.
Incompatible apps will make the device unstable and/or too slow to use. Especially apps that change how the IOS works.

 

TL ; DR for me but I will say that ever since Apple forced iOS 5 onto my iPhone 3GS, I hate the phone.

 

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Originally Posted by Malcolm

Interesting. I've had my 4S for about a month and have had probably two crashes total so far. Happened far more often on my previous Android phones :| Nowhere often enough to be a deal-breaker but still noticeable...

My guess would be 256MB of RAM just isn't cutting it these days.

Not with 5.0.1 i dont get any. iPad 2 has 512MB.

 

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Originally Posted by ZealotKi11er

iPad 2 has 512MB.

Oh, right. My bad.

 

You know, I would of thought it the other way around on the closed system, and the somewhat hectic world of Android versions. Still interesting read, the inclusion of a brand new iOS wasn't really necessary, but good to show the strain on both systems when a new OS is introduced at least.

Although this is not very analytic, I haven't had any application crash on the stock ROM of any of Droids... but I am not huge app user.

 

I noticed more frequent crashes on my ipod touch running iOS 5.x than I did on the previous 4.x.

I think the android:apple app crash between my phone and my ipod touch is roughly the same, and entirely too frequent of crashing on both.

I noticed about the same amount of crashing between my phone's vanilla OS vs. after I flashed with CM 7.2, but noticed far fewer freezes after flashing.

I'm often surprised that apps crash so frequently on iOS devices. Granted there are, quite a few hardware revisions for all of the iOS devices (IIRC iphone, 2, 3, 3gs, 4, 4s, ipod touch, 2, 3, 4, ipad, ipad 2)--on the order of a dozen give or take, but far fewer than the number of android hardware versions out, yet crashing is similar (source says iOS has more crashes).

I do notice what the source says--popular apps tend to crash much less than "lower end" apps. Glad to see developers make an effort to improve things.

 

Yeah, iOS 5 seemed to have gone less stable once it was released. Under the beta, my iPhone 4 ran like a charm. Now it's just becoming a bit slow in certain areas, and I'm even on iOS 5.1, which that beta hasn't been updated for almost a month. Seems like something isn't working right with the A4 processors and iOS 5 as I know a few people with 4's and iPad 1's who've had quite a few app crash on them, but I don't know what specific apps have. Everyone else who I know that owns a 4S or iPad 2, it's been smooth sailing for them.

Facebook is the one that crashes on me often. I just don't think that app has ever been the same since Facebook's main iOS dev left the company though.

I haven't heard many Android users that I know of with app crashing. It's mainly battery issues and it being sluggish that I always hear complaints about.

 

My Galaxy Nexus doesn't even know what a force close / app crash is

Since buying it on release, I haven't had a single app crash.

 

I have 2 apps on my iPad that crash constantly. Nothing else does however which makes me think it the developers fault and not the device itself.

I haven't noticed anything crash on my iPhone 4S.

 

I as well have issues with apps crashing on the iPad. App crashes on the iPod touch on the other hand are rare, but has happened.

When comparing my Android Device to my iPod touch, I would say they're both rare. Comparing it to my iPad on the other hand is a whole different story...

 

I've had a few random restarts on my Unrooted, Locked galaxy nexus with android 4.0.2. Nothing out there is bug free.

 

That's surprising. I would have guessed that stability would be one of the things the Apple App Store people would look at before approving an app. If they're not screening apps for quality control, then why are they screening apps? Do they just reject the ones that are similar to products Apple intends to develop and profit from themselves sometime in the future?

 

Mmm... I'm not so sure about the test:

1) What apps subscribe to this service? Are they all the same? Or are there more/different ones on iOS?
2) Were any of these devices jail broken? Where any of these subscribed apps jail broken apps?
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That's surprising. I would have guessed that stability would be one of the things the Apple App Store people would look at before approving an app. If they're not screening apps for quality control, then why are they screening apps? Do they just reject the ones that are similar to products Apple intends to develop and profit from themselves sometime in the future?

They reject any app that mimics phone functionality such as a "phone app" however the screening is to prevent malware, apps using private APIs, trashy apps, etc.

 

...doesn't the App Store on iOS devices have a lot more Apps available? Surely this would skew the data.

 

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Originally Posted by jNSK

...doesn't the App Store on iOS devices have a lot more Apps available? Surely this would skew the data.

That's what I'm thinking... if there's 100,000 different apps on iOS using the service, but only 10,000 on Android, wouldn't the diversity on iOS screw with the results? If they're the same 10000 apps, yeah, sure, but what if a whole lot more crapola on iOS subscribes to this app's service?