Mobile OS app crash comparison
May 22, 2012
This one on The Register caught my eye earlier in the year - iOS 5 'crashes more apps' than AndroidBasically, Crittercism - the company behind software that provides crash reports for mobile apps - has revealed data indicating that Apple iOS apps are more likely to crumple on impact than equivalent Android apps. Rather counter-intuitive, you would think, given the proprietary control of Apple and the more 'fragmented' nature of Android...
They looked at two week's worth of app-crash data between 1 - 14 December last year.
Anna Leach writes:
The numbers are small but in the top tranche of the most popular apps - 0.51 per cent of app launches resulted in a crash on iOS devices compared to 0.15 per cent on Android phones and tablets.
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