There seems to be a significant difference in how often mobile apps crash on devices using iOS versus Android.
Andrew Levy, the CEO of Crittercism, a mobile app monitoring startup company, attributes app crashes to hardware issues, Internet connection, language support on devices, and memory problems, according to a report by Forbes. And the problems don't stop there. Analytics and advertising-systems that developers use in their apps can also cause glitches, Levy said in the report.
iOS 5.01 is responsible for 28.64 percent of overall crashes, which is the highest proportion of app crashes from both iOS and Android platforms. While iOS 5.01 is both the newest version of iOS and raked in the most app crashes, older versions of iOS also came in with high numbers.
Among the highest were iOS 4.2.10 with almost 13 percent of app crashes, iOS 4.3.3 with nearly 11 percent of app crashes, and iOS 4.1, with more than 8 percent, the report said.
The performance of apps varies depending on the device.
Nearly three-quarters (74 percent) of the iOS crashes were on the iPhone, about 15 percent were on the iPod Touch, and 11 percent were on the iPad, Crittercism's stats reveal.
Since there were significantly more apps launched using iOS than Android, Crittercism evaluated app crashes as a percentage of app launches.
Although iOS does appear to crash more often than Android, this may not be entirely indicative of iOS's overall performance, because while Apple recently released the new version of iOS 5, Android had yet to release its new operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich, when the study was done, the report said.
The constant influx of updates on each of the operating systems may be another factor in the high-crash percentage of app launches.
