Do iOS Apps Crash More Than Android Apps? A Data Dive [View all]

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Ever wonder why certain mobile apps you use crash so much?
It turns out there are many possible reasons. And it can vary particularly depending on whether you are using an Apple iOS device such as an iPhone or iPad, or an Android device.
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In the top quartile of apps, Android apps crashed 0.15% of the time they launched, while top quartile iOS apps crashed 0.51% of the time. In the second quartile of apps, Android apps crashed 0.73% of the time and iOS apps crashed 1.47% of their launches. In the third quartile of apps, Android apps crashed 2.97% of the time, while iOS apps crashed 3.66% of the time.
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when you get to the top apps, Android’s lower app crash rate than iOS makes less of a difference because they are both well below 1%. However, there was a bigger difference between iOS and Android app crashes in the top quartile of apps than in the third quartile. In other words, the best apps in Android crashed about one third as many times as the best iOS apps, while the second best quartile Android apps crashed about half as much as comparable iOS apps, and in the quartile, the difference between the two operating systems was even less. So the very top Android apps are achieving a crash rate that, at least in this time period, the best iOS apps can’t match. Why that is, I’m not entirely clear.

However, Android, it should be noted, allows developers to push updates faster than Apple. With Android developers can just send an update to its code, which can show up almost in real-time. But for iOS it can takes days or a week for an update to show up. That means there can be more app crashes while those updates are waiting to happen. Whereas with Android, presumably if developers know there’s a bug they can immediately fix it.

read more here
www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/02/02/does-ios-crash-more-than-android-a-data-dive/

Just goes on to show the Apple claim that it "just works" is and has been never a truthful one. Its a marketing ploy that Millions fall victim to ...and end up paying $$$ more than their peers who use the products of Apple competitors.