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iPhones and iPads Fail More Often Than Android Smartphones (softpedia.com)

Posted by msmash on from the truth-is-out-there dept.

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.

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  1. What kind of stupid ass reporting is this?! by the_skywise · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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!?

    1. Re:What kind of stupid ass reporting is this?! by cfalcon · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I'm glad you posted this, because the fact that facebook sucks at supporting ios is not Apple's bad. It's also not relevant to those of us that either don't use facebook, or don't use their mobile app. Why use facebook as a metric, and not, say, some arbitrary other third party app? Statistics are lies because statisticians are liars!