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Mobile OS crash analysis firm Crittercism (Really? Who's naming this stuff?) has posted the chart above, which shows that as a percentage of crashes overall, the latest version of iOS claims the highest... Read more

Mobile OS crash analysis firm Crittercism (Really? Who’s naming this stuff?) has posted the chart above, which shows that as a percentage of crashes overall, the latest version of iOS claims the highest total. In fact, many versions of iOS show a large percentage of crashes, and clearly iOS overall seems more prone to have an app crash rather than Android.

Of course, there are quite a few qualifiers here. This data has been normalized, so we can presume that this isn’t just a quirk of the numbers: There are likely more crashes happening on iOS devices than Android devices, and not just because there’s more iOS apps being used (Crittercism says it monitored about 215 million app launches across all platforms, and there were three times as many launched on iOS, but again, this chart shows a percentage of all app launches).

So why more crashing? Crittercism suggests it’s because iOS 5.0.1 had just released, while the latest version of Android had not yet arrived, and the new OS was causing more issues than usual in Apple’s system. I would also suggest that iPhone users (who have likely paid more for their phones) tend to overtax their devices — keep in mind this is just an app crashing, not the full iOS, and we’ve all done that once or twice, right? And as you can see, there’s a fair amount of crashes on older iOS phones, which means customers might be running newer apps on older hardware, almost always a recipe for disaster.

At any rate, interesting figures. With so much more usage on iOS devices (both from skilled and not-so-skilled developers, and users of both types as well), it’s not that surprising that there are so many more crashes. Have crashes on iOS seriously affected your user experience?

Study: iOS apps crash more than Android apps do originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The ongoing patent spat between Motorola and Apple has reached an interesting crossroads. Just recently a German court granted an injunction against sales of many of Apple's 3G-bearing products, including... Read more

The ongoing patent spat between Motorola and Apple has reached an interesting crossroads. Just recently a German court granted an injunction against sales of many of Apple’s 3G-bearing products, including older model iPhones and the iPad. That injunction held for less than a day, however, pending further review of Motorola’s claims against Apple.

Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents found new information that suggests Motorola has offered to end the patent dispute and license its wireless patents to Apple — in exchange for 2.25 percent of Apple’s sales. It’s unclear whether this is a percentage of all Apple revenues or, more likely, a percentage of sales of devices which contain a 3G antenna and therefore potentially fall under the umbrella of Motorola’s patent claims. In either case, Mueller finds the 2.25 percent shakedown “excessive,” and it only takes a glance at Apple’s latest quarterly earnings statement to see that Apple finds it pretty excessive, too.

Revenue from iPhone sales, in aggregate since 2007, amounts to just under US$93 billion. Motorola’s cut of those revenues would have been nearly $2.1 billion over those years. Since the iPhone sales juggernaut shows no signs of slowing down, Motorola’s cash pile would only grow bigger over time — and those numbers don’t include sales of the Wi-Fi + 3G iPad, which Motorola also claims falls afoul of its patents.

What makes this move seem even skeevier is that Google is in the process of trying to acquire Motorola, meaning that if Motorola succeeds in its claim against Apple, Google would eventually be collecting a patent tax on the iPhone and 3G iPad.

Apple has filed motions to obtain information from several other handset vendors, including Nokia, HTC, LG, and Sony Ericsson, presumably to find out how much they’re paying in royalty fees to Motorola for the patents in question. If it turns out that Motorola is demanding more from Apple than it’s demanded from those other companies, the judge in the patent case is going to want to know why.

Motorola wants 2.25 percent of Apple sales to license patents originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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