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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?

• Not that surprising (Score: 2) by Tork on Monday March 31 2014, @01:43PM

  by Tork (3914) on Monday March 31 2014, @01:43PM (#23672)

  It wasn't that long ago that iOS 7 was released, the key difference being it's full 64-bit. And... yes the transition has been, relatively speaking, painful. I do want to emphasize the word 'relatively', though. Basically there were a handful of situations (like starting the camera app and switching to the video mode) that would cause the UI to reset. The frequency of this was something like once a week and I didn't lose more than 20 seconds of time to it. This is the worst I've ever seen iOS 7 and it is outright heaven compared to the Palm Treo I had years ago.

  There have been 2 or 3 updates since 7 came out, each improved stability, and nearly all of those problems are gone. However, I did have a browser-related reboot yesterday... but it was the first time in something like a month something like that happened. I read somewhere that the problem was that a 64-bit app eats more memory than a 32-bit app, meaning when the device gets low on memory that when something new asks for some it runs past the end. Okay I'm explaining that badly, but I also think that sounds a bit BS'y, I mean wouldn't the first thing that'd happen when switching to 64-bit is that memory allocation would be dialed in well...?

  Anyway, yeah, this has not been a banner year for iOS stability. But even at its most unstable I haven't, for example, not received a phone call or missed an alarm. I've never had to reboot the phone because it was frozen. My Galaxy Tab has behaved just as well. Frankly I much prefer this era to what I had before, I am able to take these devices for granted. I no longer have a backup alarm clock.

  I do want to warn you all, though, that Samsung announced not long after iOS 7 was debuted that they're going 64-bit late in 2014. My guess this time next year you'll see a similar report only Android and iOS are flipped. I would urge caution and patience, afterall that's a major transition.

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