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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

Google ventures, part of google i assume?

[MarkusDarkus]

Ha ha ha listen to you all. So your personal experiences are good enough to make an assumption on a whole market. Shut up. I have both, IOS crashes sometimes and Android crashes sometimes. It's just all down to luck and how good the programmer is with the particular app. I would say I've had a harder time with IOS but would never say that Android is better although Android does seem to cope better when I'm throwing a lot of complex things at it.

[+Elliott]

Boz, on 13 April 2012 - 08:30, said:

One of the reasons is that developing apps for iOS/Obj-C forces you to keep track of your pointers and handle memory management and if a developer doesn't pay attention their app will eventually address a bad pointer or will try to garbage collect something that doesn't exist and the app will crash

And if your app is targeting iOS 4+, not using CoreFoundation, and is being compiled by the new LLVM compiler with Automatic Reference Counting enabled, this is (in most cases) a thing of the past.

[nik louch]

When I say "iOS handles crashed better", what I mean is that it HIDES the fact that there is any kind of issue from the user. "Better" was a poor choice of word.

[FloatingFatMan]

nik louch, on 13 April 2012 - 15:12, said:

When I say "iOS handles crashed better", what I mean is that it HIDES the fact that there is any kind of issue from the user. "Better" was a poor choice of word.

VERY poor. Just terminating the app without showing the user ANY kind of feedback as to why is the WORST imaginable way to handle an error!

[+Elliott]

FloatingFatMan, on 13 April 2012 - 16:06, said:

VERY poor. Just terminating the app without showing the user ANY kind of feedback as to why is the WORST imaginable way to handle an error!

There are certainly some ways Apple could make it more apparent that an app has crashed, but I find a "This app has crashed" or bug reporter modal dialog to be more annoying than just saying nothing. I'm usually aware that the app has crashed. A dialog just adds an extra step in between me and getting the app launched again.

[I am Reid]

MarkusDarkus, on 03 February 2012 - 06:41, said:

hmm. Don't think I've experienced more than a couple crashes on my Desire HD but I thought iOS didn't crash at all for some reason.

are you being serious?? Why would ever think that, did you think iOS was immune to crashes or something?

[Mr Nom Nom's]

"Does iOS crash more than Android?" no, because the article is talking about app crashes NOT operating system crashes. How about READING the whole article before posting a misleading headline.

[Order_66]

I've had several iphones, ipads and ipods as well as several android phones and tablets, without a doubt android apps crash 100x more times for me than anything on ios, I just had an android app crash on me a few minutes ago on my galaxy S2 phone "GasBuddy" and last night the google play store crashed while I was browsing, facebook and ebay crash about every other day at least once, haven't had many crashes on ios, I think the cardshark app may have crashed once on my ipad.

[still1]

never had a single crash on my device after i moved to ICS for about 2 months now.

[MidnightDevil]

My HTC Desire only crashes when trying ultra alpha draft versions of ICS... lol .

[+Boz]

I am Reid, on 15 April 2012 - 06:18, said:

are you being serious?? Why would ever think that, did you think iOS was immune to crashes or something?

No.. but that was the rhetoric of all Apple fanboys. iOS is infallible and perfection of the mobile OS and Android is a turd that crashes non-stop. Well now we see what's what.

[+Shadrack]

I've had buggy iOS apps that crashed. But the OS always recovers gracefully on my phone.

I couldn't say if it is more or less than Android.

[+Shadrack]

Boz, on 16 April 2012 - 14:00, said:

No.. but that was the rhetoric of all Apple fanboys. iOS is infallible and perfection of the mobile OS and Android is a turd that crashes non-stop. Well now we see what's what.

Rhetoric from a few iOS users and then wrapped in hyperbole and shot right back to ALL iOS users. Way to get back at em' bro! That will teach them.