garyopa
02-06-2012, 04:14 PM
Apparently, iOS apps crash three times as much as Android.
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'Crittercism' made a compilation for mobile app crashes between December 1 and 15, with at least 23 different iOS operating systems and 33 Android versions. The results are surely interesting!
According to data compiled by Crittercism, iOS apps (including iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) tend to crash at least three times more than the Android ones.
Lastest iOS version, 5.01, alone registered 28.64% of the total app crashes, across all iOS and Android versions.
Even normalising for the number of reporting crashes, iOS crashed over three times more often with the 'top quartile' of iOS crashing 0.51% of the time, compared with 0.15% for Android.
Seems pretty weird iOS apps crash more often, considering the great variety of Android devices and its OS versions. Could this be related to the fact than iOS 5 was recently launched?
So what does all this data mean? On a basic level, you can see that iOS apps crashed more than Android apps during this time period. But Crittercism’s Levy cautions that this doesn’t necessarily mean that overall iOS apps crash more than Android apps. That’s because Apple had recently released a new version iOS 5 in October. Android’s new Ice Cream Sandwich operating system (Android 4.0), meanwhile, had not been widely released on phones yet at the time of this study. “I expect as Ice Cream Sandwich just launched and the new Nexus S phone launched (during the study), we’ll expect the same situation to occur (with Android) as what happened (with iOS),” Levy say.
Another possibility is that Android apps can receive updates more often than the iOS ones, because they don't need to pass a lengthy approval process, like the one Apple imposes.
However, Android, it should be noted, allows developers to push updates faster than Apple. With Android developers can just send an update to its code, which can show up almost in real-time. But for iOS it can takes days or a week for an update to show up. That means there can be more app crashes while those updates are waiting to happen. Whereas with Android, presumably if developers know there’s a bug they can immediately fix it.
All the data collected is pretty interesting, so be sure to check the graphs bellow for more info regarding every iOS and Android version!
NEWS SOURCE #1: iOS apps crash three times as much as Android (via) PCR Online (http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/ios-apps-crash-three-times-as-much-as-android/027902)
NEWS SOURCE #2: Does iOS crash more than Android? (via) Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/02/02/does-ios-crash-more-than-android-a-data-dive/)
Our thanks to 'Gauss' for another fine news story!
http://www.maxconsole.com/maxconsole/contents/RKLS0000001416/icon_xl.jpg
'Crittercism' made a compilation for mobile app crashes between December 1 and 15, with at least 23 different iOS operating systems and 33 Android versions. The results are surely interesting!
According to data compiled by Crittercism, iOS apps (including iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) tend to crash at least three times more than the Android ones.
Lastest iOS version, 5.01, alone registered 28.64% of the total app crashes, across all iOS and Android versions.
Even normalising for the number of reporting crashes, iOS crashed over three times more often with the 'top quartile' of iOS crashing 0.51% of the time, compared with 0.15% for Android.
Seems pretty weird iOS apps crash more often, considering the great variety of Android devices and its OS versions. Could this be related to the fact than iOS 5 was recently launched?
So what does all this data mean? On a basic level, you can see that iOS apps crashed more than Android apps during this time period. But Crittercism’s Levy cautions that this doesn’t necessarily mean that overall iOS apps crash more than Android apps. That’s because Apple had recently released a new version iOS 5 in October. Android’s new Ice Cream Sandwich operating system (Android 4.0), meanwhile, had not been widely released on phones yet at the time of this study. “I expect as Ice Cream Sandwich just launched and the new Nexus S phone launched (during the study), we’ll expect the same situation to occur (with Android) as what happened (with iOS),” Levy say.
Another possibility is that Android apps can receive updates more often than the iOS ones, because they don't need to pass a lengthy approval process, like the one Apple imposes.
However, Android, it should be noted, allows developers to push updates faster than Apple. With Android developers can just send an update to its code, which can show up almost in real-time. But for iOS it can takes days or a week for an update to show up. That means there can be more app crashes while those updates are waiting to happen. Whereas with Android, presumably if developers know there’s a bug they can immediately fix it.
All the data collected is pretty interesting, so be sure to check the graphs bellow for more info regarding every iOS and Android version!
NEWS SOURCE #1: iOS apps crash three times as much as Android (via) PCR Online (http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/ios-apps-crash-three-times-as-much-as-android/027902)
NEWS SOURCE #2: Does iOS crash more than Android? (via) Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/02/02/does-ios-crash-more-than-android-a-data-dive/)
Our thanks to 'Gauss' for another fine news story!