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by jsankey 5250 days ago
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!
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zrgiu_ 5250 days ago
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.

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bbbbbbbbb 5250 days ago
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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