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iPhones and iPads Fail More Often Than Android Smartphones (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The main question when picking a new phone is whether to choose an Android one or an iPhone. A new study coming from Blancco Technology Group sheds some light on which devices are the most reliable, based on reliability. The study entitled State of Mobile Device Performance and Health reveals the device failure rates by operating systems, manufacturers, models and regions, as well as the most common types of performance issues. The report reveals that in Q2 2016, iOS devices had a 58% failure rate, marking the first time that Apple's devices have a lower performance rate compared to Android. It seems that the iPhone 6 had the highest failure rate of 29%, followed by iPhone 6s and iPhone 6S Plus. Android smartphones had an overall failure rate of 35%, an improvement from 44% in Q1 2016. Samsung, Lenovo and LeTV were among the manufacturers with the weakest performance and higher failure rates. Samsung scored 26% in failure rate, while Motorola just 11%. The study also reveals that iOS devices fail more frequently in North America and Asia compared to Android. Specifically, the failure rate in North America is 59%, while in Asia 52%. The failures could be influenced by the fact that the quality of smartphones shipped around the world varies.
I'm not an "apple boi" by any stretch of the imagination but c'mon -
"The main issues that owners of iOS smartphones face is not being able to connect to a WiFi network, dropped connections, slow speeds and incorrect password prompts. Android smartphone users struggled with camera issues, battery charging, touch screen issues, app crashes, syncing problems and random reboots."
Apple has wifi issues (I've encountered them too) - Android has toush screen issues, random reboots (random reboots?!?!) - therefore Android is better WTF?!
"The study also revealed that 50% of iOS applications crashes in Q2, compared to 23% of Android apps."
ok but that's not necessarily and iOS problem per se - (I don't blame Microsoft for Adobe's lousy QA or, heh, iTunes crashes...) So what's the details here...
"Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat were among the top apps to crash on iOS, while Google Play Services, Google Contacts Sync and Address Book crashed the most on Android."
Facebook crashes on iOS but Address Book crashes on Android - ergo Android is better?! Again... WTF!?
That is a very cool opinion from an AC. My opinion is much different.
Just the other day, I needed to read an RFID tag for an iPhone user, because my Android has that feature and iPhone will NEVER have that feature.
So, IMHO iPhones suck because even though they can, they don't. Walled Gardens and all that.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Just the other day, an iPhone user was praising SIRI and how great it was, and tried to search to see what area codes are used in San Bernadino. SIRI responded with some nonsense about not wanting to do that right now or something. I asked Google the exact same question, and got the correct answer "Okay GOogle, what are the area codes for ________"
You should try it.
Every time I use an iDevice, I have found it is just "less" than my experience on Android. Mind you, I'm not full Apple everything (AppleTV, Apple Computer, Apple whatever). I expect if you go "all Apple, all the time", it just works ... sort of. But in my world, where I can mix n match and get the same (often better) results, I'll stick with Android.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
By hacking into manufacturer data? Because I doubt any of them would willingly give that data out.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
When I worked for AT&T Wireless (Pre-cingular), the least reliable devices were always the cheapest devices (Which were always flip-phones, and nearly universally LG phones, though Samsung was #2 in the failure rate, however nothing failed more than the Motorola V60 series)
So reliability tends to downtick every time a new device is released. It's a question of how long that downtick is. Like you can pretty much frame all Android devices as unreliable if you use a 3 year window, due to failed firmware updates, or lack of updates which renders the device unusable. iOS devices don't have this problem, but there are likewise "failed firmware" updates as well where the device needs to be power-cycled, but can't because the screen isn't responding. (I've had this happen 3 times to the iPad 3, but no fails yet for the 6S)
When I worked for AT&T Wireless, I worked the "WEX" queue, aka, "Warranty Exchange" when other queues were empty, and like clockwork, anyone who was sold a LG or Samsung phone for AT&T's early EDGE GSM network, the radios didn't work on all the radio bands, so people were returning them as "warranty replacements" often within 2 months, and it was making AT&T look like it had poor service. I don't recall any Nokia phones ever being WEX'd
Here's a thing to try if you contact the warranty exchange department, see how quickly they respond to questions. If your phone is less than 6 months old, and they don't ask too many probing questions, chances are that phone is a piece of junk and they have had hundreds of exchanges on that phone already.