Criticism, a company that specializes in apps, has released some data that shows that with the new iOS 5, Apple’s (News - Alert) latest app adaptor, apps are crashing more frequently than Android’s apps. Criticism reached this conclusion by using data from crash reports received during the first two weeks in December. The study shows that 51 percent of iOS apps that were launched during this time frame crashed as opposed to the 15 percent of app crashes experienced by Android (News - Alert) users.

When apps crash at all, some people want answers. But when apps are crashing at that frequency, some people may want to throw their phone against the wall and get something different. But before you do this to you iPhone (News - Alert), hear what Criticism’s CEO Andrew Levy says. He explains that the iOS 5 crashed more than any of the previous iOS versions. The iOS 5 was just launched in October and the study was conducted in December.

In all fairness, this will likely happen with Androids after the launch of Ice Cream Sandwich. Also, since third party software and Internet connection switches are important factors in app crashes, maybe those problems should be addressed as well. In addition, try to make efforts in upgrading your apps and your system before cussing out your phone.

Forbes journalist, Tomio Geron, studied the pie charts and graphs provided by Criticism and points out that the crashes occurred most frequently on the iPhone, not on any other Apple device. Also, back to the note about upgrading, iPhone users are less likely to upgrade their apps, and this is probably because unlike Android users who are fortunate enough to have auto-upgrades programmed into their system making this task quick and painless, it takes forever to upgrade apps on iPhones.

Another report covering the Criticism data, suggests that we should consider that Apple has been the victim of fake apps:  “What was truly disturbing about the fake apps was that one of the apps, Temple Jump, looked quite like the real one and had become one of the top paid apps on the iTunes store!”