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iOS crashes more than Lollipop

by on13 February 2015


Still, you get what you pay for

A survey which is not being widely reported among the Tame Apple Press, shows that Apple's latest iOS software is not as reliable as Android Lollypop.

For a while the Tame Apple Press has been running stories about all the issues that people have with Lollypop, but a recent report by Crittercism however it seems that for all the issues people have been having with Android 5.0 Lollipop, they are nothing compared to the problems that people are having with iOS8

The report states that Android users on Lollipop are experiencing 0.2 percent less crashes than those users who are running the iOS 8 version of Apple's mobile operating system.

This figure might seem below the margin of error and they are both about the same, however the difference is huge when you factor in the larger numbers of iPhone users.

Given the perception that Apple software is more reliable, it looks like that there are a lot of Apple fanboys facing lots of "blue screens of death."

Crittercism said that the figures point out that Android's latest version of the OS is slightly more stable than that of iOS.

The same report claims that iOS 8 is also seeing a higher app crash rate than the previous version of the mobile operating system, iOS 7, which saw an app crash rate of 1.9 percent.
Comparing this to previous versions of Android, like Kit Kat for example, which saw app crash rates as a whole of 2.6 percent, it would seem that Android's instability rate is decreasing while that of iOS is actually increasing.

It seems that Apple would be better spending its huge cash pile on producing better software rather than keeping it in the bank.  Still it probably does not think it has to -- its fanboys will insist that it brilliant software even while it is crashing in front of them.

Crittercism also notes that comparing the two mobile operating systems of even older versions, saw the same results with Android users seeing lower amounts of crash rates for apps than that of users running the comparable version of iOS at the time, stating the versions of Android 1.6 through 4.0.1 saw less app crashes than users on iOS 3.13 to iOS 5.1.

Last modified on 13 February 2015
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