Yep, that's about right. This app is shit on iOS. I thought the App Store was supposed to have a quality review process, but this thing crashes all the time.
Haven't played it, but testing an app without any significant load would seem to be pretty different from scaling up the backend to twitter-scale in a couple of days.
The app isn't very good on Android either. But then it is supposedly version 0.29? The original Ingress app wasn't that stable either, but with all the interest and revenue generation, I imagine it won't be too long before it stabilizes.