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cbiltcliffe writes:
Crittercism has performed testing on mobile platforms, and found that while Apple's release of iOS 7 is the most stable iOS release to date, reducing the crash rate to 1.7%, this still pales compared to Android versions 4.0+, which have a crash rate of only 0.7%.
Not surprisingly, gaming apps with complex graphics and sound crashed more often (4.4%) than other apps, with eCommerce apps getting the best rating of only 0.6%. Some pre-digested coverage from gantdaily.com can save having to dig through pages of research data slides, if you're not looking for the gritty details.
Is this consistent with your experience, or does your particular usage tell a different story?
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by oodaloop on Monday March 31 2014, @05:44AM
I don't own an iOS device, so I can't compare directly. But I am running Key Lime Pie (fuck Nestle) on the Google Nexus 5, and have found it to be incredibly stable. I can't think of the last time it crashed or when I had to restart to fix something.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by mrbluze on Monday March 31 2014, @08:02AM
I had instability with Samsung's android variant on my S4, so I put on Cyanogenmod which is closer to stock Android. It's more stable but the battery life suffers due to a lack of drivers I think. But stock Android is very stable. However is it more secure? No. Is it a better phone than my Nokia S40 series tough phone? No .. it wouldn't survive being driven over by a car or being run through the wash, it doesn't have a battery life of 1 week, and my Nokia never crashed.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Grishnakh on Monday March 31 2014, @09:33AM
My wife used to have an iPhone 3GS, and now we both have HTC Sensation 4G phones. The iPhone crashed now and then, but the HTC is just plain horrible. It's slow as shit, and it crashes constantly. However, the definition of "crash" is different: on iOS, when it crashed, it really crashed hard, usually needing some secret button press which I forget now to force it to reboot. The HTC phones have serious problems, but they don't appear to be with the Android OS really, but rather with HTC's shitty "Sense" UI they slapped on top. So, for instance, every single time I use Google Maps to navigate somewhere, after I reach my destination and close the app, it crashes, and I have to stare at "HTC" in the middle of the screen while it restarts the Sense UI. It's not the whole phone rebooting, it's just Sense. Also, the web browser is crap, and constantly crashes, dropping me back to the main screen. I don't know if this is because the Android browser sucks, or because HTC fucked it all up somehow.
It's really a shame, because the HTC hardware is actually really nice, but the software is shit. I've thought of trying out CyanogenMod on it, but it doesn't look like the Sensation 4G is all that well supported on it (these phones aren't that new any more). I really like the replaceable batteries and microSD cards, features some other Android phones (Nexus) don't have.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Monday March 31 2014, @10:15AM
Thank you for that, I'll be sure to stay away from HTC. I've had a Kyocera running Jelly Bean since last summer when I upgraded my flip phone. It's a cheap phone and getting cheaper, they're half the price I paid now.
It hasn't crashed once since I got it. Of course, the fanciest apps I run on it is YouTube and TuneIn.
Hard to compare iPnone and Android, since so many manufacturers are using Android. If you buy the wrong hardware you'll think the OS sucks. Apple is based on BSD and Android is based on Linux so I wonder, what's the stability of BSD compared to Linux?
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday March 31 2014, @10:36AM
Generally speaking, the BSD and Linux kernels are both renowned for very high stability. I guess one question might be how the two differ when dealing with out-of-memory situations.
The big question, of course, is what exactly is causing all the crashes, on either OS. I suspect the main problems are not in the kernels, but the rest of the systems. With my HTC as I said before, I've never had crashes that forced the phone to reboot (I have rebooted the phone many times, however, just because it had gotten too slow or problematic, but again this is a userland problem because the system overall isn't well architected and has too much crapware in it, and doesn't give you any way of shutting it down or removing it); the problems are all in the upper layers of software and especially the bolted-on HTC Sense UI. Samsung has something similar called TouchWiz BTW, so I don't know that those phones would be any better.
(Score: 1) by Acabatag on Monday March 31 2014, @09:31PM
Possibly if the HTC 'Sense' is just a launcher, you could install and use a more stable launcher. Look up 'launcher' in the app store. The ui on android is replaceable, like a window manager on desktop linux.