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Testing Finds Android More Stable than Apple iOS.

posted by LaminatorX on Monday March 31 2014, @05:36AM   
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?

• What's a Windows Phone? Stable. What's a Windows Phone? Stable. (Score: 3, Informative) by Bartman12345 on Monday March 31 2014, @12:25PM

  by Bartman12345 (1317) on Monday March 31 2014, @12:25PM (#23632)

  Since this article comes to us courtesy of the "What's a Windows Phone" dept, I'll chime in with an answer.

  Stable, that's what.

  I purchased a second hand Nokia Lumia 820, mostly out of curiosity. It has been rock solid, which is more than I can say for my last two Android phones.

  The stability comes at a cost though. Microsoft has locked down their Windows Phone 8 OS as tight as a fish's arsehole, thus preventing app developers from doing anything to fill the functionality gaps, but apparently also ensuring they can't easily hose the OS.

  Windows Phone 8 has great potential, but in its current form is lacking too much basic smartphone functionality to be a serious contender. The WP8.1 update could be a game changer, and is only weeks away. I have high hopes this will bring Windows Phone up to speed, but somehow I just know it will be found wanting.

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• Re:What's a Windows Phone? Stable. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 31 2014, @06:26PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 31 2014, @06:26PM (#23791)

  Despite your anecdote, however, Windoze has a 3-decade-long reputation where the common perception is that M$'s OSes blue screen, freeze, and require reboots for no good reason.
  MSFT would have done well to have NOT re-used their legacy trademarked name[1] on their mobile OS and instead come up with a unique name for that.[2]
  Foot, meet bullet.

  [1] Every time I think of being able to not only trademark a generic word but having the temerity to sue when someone else [google.com] has the audacity to use a name that is different by one letter, I realize just how broken the "intellectual property" regime is worldwide.

  [2] Word, Office, .NET.  WTF?? [itworld.com]
  For a company involved in "creative" undertakings, M$ has some of the least creative people choosing names for things. [stackexchange.com]
  Wanna see folks who had this figured out before BillG was born?
  Look at Big Pharma's product names.

  Now, a name that I do like because it was so descriptive was "wince".
  ...then again, *n?x has fsck (Filesystem Check). 8-)

  -- gewg_

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