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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: 2) by mcgrew on Monday March 31 2014, @10:15AM

    by mcgrew (701) on Monday March 31 2014, @10:15AM (#23578) Homepage Journal

    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

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday March 31 2014, @10:36AM (#23586)

    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.