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Testing Finds Android More Stable than Apple iOS.

posted by LaminatorX on Monday March 31 2014, @05:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the What's-Windows-Phone? dept.

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: 3, Informative) by TGV on Monday March 31 2014, @08:03AM

    by TGV (2838) on Monday March 31 2014, @08:03AM (#23512)

    The testing seems to have measured crashes in apps, not in the OS. The final slide defines crash rate as "Percentage of app loads that result in a crash." While it can inform you what to expect from an unknown app, it doesn't say anything about the OS per se (as the title implies).

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Open4D on Monday March 31 2014, @08:37AM

    by Open4D (371) on Monday March 31 2014, @08:37AM (#23522) Journal

    Yes, I think the title should be "Android Apps May Be More Stable Than iOS Apps".

    TFA (direct PDF link [documentcloud.org] in case people prefer it) does contribute to the confusion though. They use statements like "Android tablets have worse crash rates than Android phones" (page 14) and "iPhone 5 crashes least" (page 15). But I do still think they're talking about app crashes.

     
    Anyway, could it be because Android app dev is done in a somewhat higher level language than iOS app dev, thus protecting programmers from certain types of mistakes?

    • (Score: 1) by TGV on Monday March 31 2014, @08:45AM

      by TGV (2838) on Monday March 31 2014, @08:45AM (#23527)

      Who knows? I don't know the dirty details of Android development, but most seems to be done in Java. The (few) native apps I've seen have the UI in Java, and the core in a native DLL, so start-up would still be Java. That might be enough to explain that start-up is more stable.