When we covered 8 big problems with iOS 8earlier this week, there was apparently a huge problem that was omitted from the list: it is still early for iOS 8 right now, of course, but so farApple’s new
mobile software is far more prone to crashes than the previous release,
iOS 7.1. According to a study from Crittercism, which says it analyzes
data from more than 1 billion monthly active mobile users, apps crash
78% more frequently on Apple’s latest and greatest version of iOS 8 than
they do on its predecessor.
In an email to BGR, mobile
application performance management experts Crittercism said that the
company analyzed data across iOS users between September 17th and
September 22nd, and found that app crash rates across all devices
running iOS 8 landed at 3.56%.
On the same devices running iOS 7.1, apps only crashed 2% of the time, though that figure is up from 1.6% in March.
Older devices are obviously worse
offenders than newer ones. As of September 22nd, apps crashed 3.57% of
the time on the iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c and iPhone 4s (of note, Crittercism
lumped the iPhone 4 into this group in the supplied data even though it
doesn’t run iOS 8). Meanwhile, the company found that as of the same
day, iPhone 6 apps crashed 2.63% of the time and iPhone 6 Plus apps
crashed 2.11% of the time.
As far as adoption is
concerned, Crittercism pegged iOS 8 adoption at 20.06% as of the 22nd,
which is probably a bit low considering Apple confirmed a 46% iOS 8
adoption rate as of September 22nd.
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