[zrgiu_]

I have almost never had an iOS app crash on me. I get crashes in Android apps almost weekly. I honestly don't know where those guys are getting their data, but I really don't believe it.

It's true, it's a lot easier for developers on Android to fix bugs and quickly update their apps because of the lack of an approval process, but that also lowers the bar a great deal on the quality of apps (a lot of which never get updated).

Edit: I don't know how this goes on iOS, but for Android Market apps, you can see all crash reports straight in the publisher console, without the need for 3rd party services.

[wvenable]

I get iOS app crashes all the time -- and not just third party applications. The app store seems particularly buggy and in the 5 months since I've had my iPhone; crashing on multiple occasions.

The worst problem I've ever had is some kind of corruption in the photos app. I thought perhaps it was a corrupt file but I couldn't launch the Photos app to delete it. I couldn't launch the camera app either. There's no way to delete any of the camera roll photos from iTunes either! I went over a month like this until I used a third party desktop application to delete every photo on the phone -- and that didn't work. So I started deleting random cache file in the file system before it finally started working again.

iOS apps crash pretty silently -- they just disappear. That might make the appearance of crashes much smaller.

[zrgiu_]

wow, that's quite a bad experience. is your iPhone jailbroken ?

[wvenable]

It was not at the time. I've only been jailbroken since the untethered for iOS 5 came out.

I would have been better off it was jailbroken because I could have more easily navigated the file system and deleted the corrupt image cache right on the device.

[jsankey]

You honestly don't believe their data solely because it doesn't match your personal experience? You are just one user after all!

Personally I see crashes on iOS a couple of times a week, and I hardly use third-party apps. Most of my crashes are Safari!

[zrgiu_]

I work with an iPhone 4 and an HTC Sensation all day long. 12 hours a day I'm holding either phones in my hands. I have >500 purchases in my itunes account, and just as many in my android market account. That's what I'm basing my belief on.

It might have just been luck, but Safari absolutely never crashed for me, and pretty much the same goes for all my other iOS apps.

But... To be on the topic: I don't think their data is accurate because of the way publishing works on both markets, and of the lack of transparency in other important aspects (how many apps do they base their statistics on each platform ? what's the total users number they have on each platform?) which can reveal exactly WHY those statistics are the way they are for them.

[bbbbbbbbb]

yeah, I tend to agree.

I have at work access to an iPhone 3GS, 4,4S with iOS ranging from 4 to 5. I also have 2 or 3 different handsets of androids to work on. I personally use an iPhone but all my coworkers androids just keep freezing all the time... (my iPhone 3GS used to freeze before but it was a long time ago...) On the other hand, since I've switched to the iphone4S, I can say that apps crash really often but I can't tell if it is due to iOS5(thank you Apple for changing really minor dumb stuff at every f'g new version without having a real deprecation rule as Android has) or my way of using the phone(I use way much more apps).

All in all, I can't really tell if iOS apps crashes more than Android but it seems that Android OS is still very buggy yet.

also, statistics are very little weak creatures from which you can extort any figures. especially,when you read this:

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Crittercism, which is backed by Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, AngelPad, AOL Ventures, Opus Capital and Shasta Ventures, provides crash reporting to app developers.

[msbarnett]

If the graphic is to be believed, the data comes from one 3rd party crash reporting system.

I guess "Among apps that use the Crittercism service, iOS client applications crash more often" was a bit too wordy.

[mhd]

The last two or three iOS updates caused quite a few crashes until some updates rolled in, and beyond that I still get some every day. Most of the on my iPad, mostly due to the fact that I use it a bit more and with apps that deal with more data (e.g. GoodReader) or network traffic (browsers, Flipboard, Alien Blue).

But that's anecdotal evidence anyway, and with my usage pattern you'd just need a few "black sheep" to really bring down the average.

My Android usage isn't that heavy, so not really comparable. Not that many crashes this far, but especially in the early days quite a few freezes.

[sskates]

You only see crash reports in the publisher console if the user reports the crash. In practice, users will send a report only a small fraction of the time, so that's where software that automatically does it all the time becomes very useful.