Do iOS apps crash more than Android?

Post by zrgiu_ » Fri, Feb 03, 2012, 4:26 AM UTC

wvenable wrote: post #9

zrgiu_ wrote: post #2

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 u…

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 t…

Post by zrgiu_ » Fri, Feb 03, 2012, 4:27 AM UTC

extension wrote: post #5

It really irks me when crashes are made out to be the result of user actions, or some inescapable act of god. Excepting the very rare hardware fault, crashes are caused by a programmer error . PERIOD. That is all that really matters from the user's perspective. There may be some way to work around the bug by tinkering with things, but nothing the user does can ever cause a crash. Also, it wouldn't surprise me if iOS…

Post by extension » Fri, Feb 03, 2012, 4:42 AM UTC

zrgiu_ wrote: post #13

extension wrote: post #5

It really irks me when crashes are made out to be the result of user actions, or some inescapable act of god. Excepting the very rare hardware fault, crashes are caused by a programmer error . PERIOD. That is all that really matters from the user's perspective. There may be some way to work around the bug by tinkering with things, but nothing the user does can ever cause a crash. Also, it wouldn't surprise me if iOS…

When an Android app runs of memory it also crashes, with an OutOfMemory error.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 03, 2012, 5:09 AM UTC

extension wrote: post #15

zrgiu_ wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When an Android app runs of memory it also crashes, with an OutOfMemory error.

So it does. Though it also has garbage collection, which likely prevents the kind of memory leaks that crash most iOS apps in the first place. And does it let the browser use swap? Because iOS doesn't, so web pages can crash it about as easily as apps can.

Post by fasteddie31003 » Fri, Feb 03, 2012, 5:16 AM UTC