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For a long time, Android has been saddled with the stereotype of being a buggy operating system when compared to the competition. Times have changed, and with that, so has Android. The launch of Android 4.4 brought a very mature-looking OS to the mobile world, as well as a very stable one. 

Crittercism is a company that produces the Mobile Experience Benchmark Report, which puts different operating systems through stress tests to find weak points. In its latest Report, Crittercism tested 2,582 devices across 691 mobile carriers and 106 different operating systems. The company found a lot of statistics, but the OS that was most likely to crash was Android 2.3 Gingerbread at 1.7%.

In comparison, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean, and Kit Kat were all rated at 0.7% crash rates. Those are pretty good numbers when compared with the best performing version of iOS (version 7.1), which got a 1.6% crash rate. It’s also worth noting that according to this report, the most stable Android phones on the market are manufactured by Samsung.

As with most statistics, you should take these numbers with a grain of salt. iOS is much more widely spread around the world than Kit Kat, which as of the last distribution chart,was only on 2.5% Android devices worldwide.

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Yeah, the change from Android 2.x to 4.x was significant. Much better in every possible category. KitKat being the latest version is simply amazing. Though I'd still push people to use Nexus over Samsung and other OEMs. The pure Android experience is just better in performance and other areas.

I love my Android, but it all depends on what hardware you use. If you are using the latest hardware running stock Android, you're fine. If you're running a 2 year old phone with Touchwiz or Sense, you'll experience a lot of crashes.

Tell that to my bother, sister-in-law and girlfriend... well my girl moved to iOS (now she just want to use Facetime).

Android is the least stable (major) mobile OS without question. iOS and Windows Phone 8 are about tied in stability

It is kinda obvious. I have an Ipad 4 which just goes back to the home screen with no notification once in every few hours. It is on IOS 6 because IOS 7 was much buggier from what I have seen from friends (this article supports that). Though I rarely use a tablet so I don't feel the need to change it. In the mean time, my Nexus 5 never crashed on me since I bought it. I was a Galaxy S owner before and the progress speed of Android is really mindblowing.

 I don't like the skins in general, but to be honest latest Sense versions are just light years ahead of Touchwiz in both stability and speed. HTC really stepped up their game in both software and hardware. Touchwiz is just giving Android a bad name.

I don't agree. I've used the Galaxy S2, S4, and Iphone 5, and the Iphone 5 crashed way less.

Yayy love my s4 with 4.4.2!!! Its soo damn fast and snappy... now if we can just get all the apps ios has, android will truly be the best os

I have an HTC One (2013) and it's pretty stable, I still get random crashes every week or two though. I agree that it's years ahead of Samsung's abomination, but stock Kit Kat is easily the best.

Yeah I'll definately go with your side rather than the article in the OP. 3 people's opinions VS actually testing 2500 devices.