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iOS Vs. Android: Which Has the Crashiest Apps?
First time accepted submitter creativeHavoc writes "Forbes author Tomio Geron takes a look at data accrued by mobile app monitoring startup Crittercism. After looking at normalized data of crashes over the various mobile operating system versions he compares crash rates of apps on the two platforms. He also breaks it down further to look how the top apps compare across the competing mobile operating systems. The results may not be what you expect."
You have nobody to thank for this but a: the carriers and b: apple.
It is they, who in collusion, raised the price of buying a phone to astronomical levels. Remember when the highest price for an unlocked phone was usually $200? What phone broke that trend? Iphone.
It ended up making the carriers a ton of money even though the consumer gets screwed.
I expect Microsoft has probably got a patent on 'crashes more often than Linux-based operating systems' so maybe they could.
despite all of your rambling bullshit, you cannot write apps that will properly multitask for ios AND will get listed in the official market.
For someone who's spectacularly wrong you sure are arrogant. First off iOS is a multitasking OS in the original sense of the word, meaning processes are running concurrently, and it's multithreaded. But I'll let that go and assume you are using multitasking in the colloquial sense, namely running several apps at once and even there you are wrong :
"For tasks that require more execution time to implement, you must request specific permissions to run them in the background without their being suspended. In iOS, only specific app types are allowed to run in the background:
Apps that play audible content to the user while in the background, such as a music player app
Apps that keep users informed of their location at all times, such as a navigation app
Apps that support Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Newsstand apps that need to download and process new content
Apps that receive regular updates from external accessories"
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.