iPhone 5s app crash rate twice the rate on iPhone 5 and 5c: report
12 Oct 2013
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Apple's new 64-bit iOS 7 and A7 processor found in the iPhone 5s apparently till has some bugs that needed ironing out, reports AppleInsider citing a new study that reveals that applications were twice as likely to crash on the iPhone 5s as they were on the 32-bit iPhone 5.
According to the data collected by app performance monitoring company, Crittercism, and shared yesterday by AllThingsD, applications running on the iPhone 5s had a crash rate of about 2 per cent, while last year's iPhone 5 and this year's iPhone 5c, which ran the same CPU and 32-bit version of iOS 7, had an application crash rate of just under 1 per cent.
A representative for Crittercism suggested that crashes were more likely to occur on the iPhone 5s as developers were unable to check compatibility with the latest iPhone and its new 64-bit A7 processor ahead of its launch. Testing for iOS 7 on 32-bit chips had been possible since the release of the first beta at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference in June.
Despite issues lingering, according to the bug tracking company, Apple had still done a good job of transitioning to a new 64-bit version of its mobile operating system in a way that was largely seamless to end users.
They added such problems were inevitable with the release of any new hardware or software.
The data on iPhone 5s crashes comes with some users reporting seeing Windows-style "Blue Screen of Death" reboots on Apple's latest handset.
Commentators say the issue appears to be triggered by the use of multitasking feature of iOS 7, which could accessed by double-tapping the home button.
Apple had already released two minor updates for iOS 7 to address bugs with the first a day-one update available for new iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c buyers, while iOS 7.0.2 arrived in late September to fix a lockscreen passcode bug.
According to the data collected by app performance monitoring company, Crittercism, and shared yesterday by AllThingsD, applications running on the iPhone 5s had a crash rate of about 2 per cent, while last year's iPhone 5 and this year's iPhone 5c, which ran the same CPU and 32-bit version of iOS 7, had an application crash rate of just under 1 per cent.
A representative for Crittercism suggested that crashes were more likely to occur on the iPhone 5s as developers were unable to check compatibility with the latest iPhone and its new 64-bit A7 processor ahead of its launch. Testing for iOS 7 on 32-bit chips had been possible since the release of the first beta at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference in June.
Despite issues lingering, according to the bug tracking company, Apple had still done a good job of transitioning to a new 64-bit version of its mobile operating system in a way that was largely seamless to end users.
They added such problems were inevitable with the release of any new hardware or software.
The data on iPhone 5s crashes comes with some users reporting seeing Windows-style "Blue Screen of Death" reboots on Apple's latest handset.
Commentators say the issue appears to be triggered by the use of multitasking feature of iOS 7, which could accessed by double-tapping the home button.
Apple had already released two minor updates for iOS 7 to address bugs with the first a day-one update available for new iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c buyers, while iOS 7.0.2 arrived in late September to fix a lockscreen passcode bug.
