Q: iPad Safari crashing regularly

I'm starting to get paranoid!  Could it be because weare close to the holidays and what better time than now to get a new iPad?!  Someone in your home will hear you complain and they'll go out and buy you a nice expensive Xmas present....ooooo!  His iPad is broken.  Let's get hime a new one!

Same thing will happen at the end of next year ;)

Sounds reasonable, though i have these crashes also on my iPad 3, just not as often. Sold my iPad 1 now,

as its not usable anymore for surfing. Even downgrading to 4.3 didnt help anymore. My next cellphone will be Android, and im starting to get used to Android tablets too. No Java/Flash, no more fast JB's AND those crashes? Byebye Apple.

I hate to break it to you, but Android is no longer supporting Flash either. Its just old, dead technology and the other tablet platforms are finally catching up to what Apple has known for several years now...

This is seriously annoying. I have hundreds of crash reports now. All of them give a Sigsev Invalid Access error (As a programmer I know segfaults are a massive pain in the rear) and it isn't limited to just Safari or any other app. The worst crashes are Springboard, the iPad interface, which then brings the entire iPad to the Apple logo.

I have multiple crashes for Safari (any heavy load seems to bomb the app) on a daily basis. Multiple crashes for the Facebook app (Equally as unreliable) and crashes for pretty much anything on the iPad.

I am running an iPad 1st gen, however it is always updated and supporting the latest software releases.

The very sad truth is Apple has never been a good software company which may be why they have always overcharged for substandard hardware. I've loved Apple products for a while however after the endless crashes on apple devices be it iPads, iPods or even just iMacs, I've decided to call it quits.

All of Apples competition provide superior screens, hardware and software as well as far superior licensing models and lets not forget the massive cost savings.

I recently recieved an email from Apple stating that my hdd in my 27inch iMac could produce a serious error however my options were;

A) Take my apple to an iMac store. Ok, carry a £2k com down the high street! B) A service provider will collect it from me. (semi ok) or C) tough basically. Ok so my issue is not having a working system for what will turn into a 14 day cycle. Apples response, tough. They won't even send me out the drive to replace myself as they have no service for this so my response, apart from being extremely irritated by this, goodbye Apple, you have been outsmarted by your competition, outwitted by the consumer and out priced by all your competition.

Wow, sounds like you've had a bit of a rough go. I don't quite get your comment about Apple "never being a good software company which may be why they have always overcharged for substandard hardware". A) the Apple OS has always been generally considered more stable than Windows, and I can attest is definitely better than Android (at least up ICS, I don't know about Jelly Bean). As for the hardware, if Apple is so substandard, then why is everybody else struggling to match it? (unibody design, aluminum housing, "ultrabook" architecture, and so on). Most of these phone companies didn't even do a touch screen until they realized Apple would bury them in the slag heap if they didn't, then all they did was struggle to copy their "look and feel".

Good luck to you. I hope the other platforms are all that you hope for, but being a relatively new convert to Apple, my experience tells me you'll be spending all that extra cash on aspirin...

Gstar, an OS isn't justification enough to provide credit on this basis only. The OS is buggy as anything but I will admit that it is more stable than Windows however this has significantly less to do with good engineering and a lot to do with how MAC and WINDOWS process data and fetch data. Apple win hands down here.

Regarding hardware, you are the absolute perfect customer for apple. You clearly read marketing materials and recite them brilliantly however I'm not talking about "shiny" tin, I'm talking about what's under the hood. This is substdard £ for £ no quibbles.

Most of the tablets on the market have surpassed Apples look and feel when it comes to notebooks, provide superior hardware, again £ for £ and don't suffer from anywhere near the amount of user latency that apple provide. Also, Apple have no decent flash solution for their mobile solutions and Apples answer to this, you don't need it. Well I'm afraid that even with HTML 5 it is still used by 70%+ of both the consumer and proffesionalism market place so Apple are hands down a looser in this arena. All because Apple want the code!

Whereas you are new to Pple, I am not, nor am I new to tech as I was until last year one of the most senior architects for one of the 5 largest com companies so no, I won't be taking any aspirin but I really do appreciate you chirping in with marketing humph and end user attitutudes, unfortunately Apple isn't really interested in your opinion or anyone else's and it holds no weight in the slightest other than a consumer opinion.

Another thread made reference to this page: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/puzzled-by-ipad-crashes-we-show-you-how-to-solve -it-167205

It may mot be appropriate for every poster on this thread but it does offer a number of things you can do reduce the crashes.

@gilesfrombournemouth : you are clearly trolling and way off topic.

Since you feel it is necessary to bolster your claims with unrelated blather, I offer that I am a software developer with over 25 years experience. My work requires a deep understanding of OS X, WIndows, and Linux.

If you cannot offer useful assistance, which you have not, then stop posting. You, your employer, brother/sister in law, or whoever, should leave marketing to the proper channels.

Mop hilly; I'm not being a troll as being a troll has nothing to do with what I'm doing which is expressing an accurate personal experience of a company which lives via marketing. Trolling is to do with slagging off ppl generally during a bereavement in actual fact.

How are my points unrelated blather?(sorry I'm unfamiliar with this term) and the point of saying you are a software designer with over 25 years experience, ok, but why say that? Are you stating that Apple are a great software developer, ok, give an opinion just dont start trying to slag me off, at least I put some real life experience into the topic, I.e. meat around the bone. P.s. it makes no quibbles if you have been a software developer past 15 years due to massive change but feel free to tell me I'm talking carbon!

I further don't understand why you then make reference to my family in any shape or form, again, I'm being a troll? And finally, I'm not marketing as marketing is in I.t 90% inaccurate fud.

I did offer useful info, I provided my opinion on a huge issue with which Apples software developers are unable to resolve, perhaps unwilling. Btw, all of my points above can be verified by getting a calculator and researching but thanks for what I assume was supposed to be a personal attack, you also seem to be an Apple "icanifibeleiveican" fan, cool, but don't start abusing me for no reason.

Peace out mophilly

P.p.s - great article, just switch off everything and hopefully it will limit the endless crashes I receive on an hourly basis.

Further evidence of my claims memory issues argument sustained.

I beg to differ on a couple points...There is only one possible place where other tablets on the market have surpassed the iPad in hardware, and that MIGHT be the advent of gorilla glass. Otherwise I fail to see any advantage other than the possibility to add external memory which is a marginal advantage at best.

Also, as a long time .com architect you should be well aware of the fact that Android (Jelly Bean) no longer supports flash. So you're argument that Apple missed the boat there is a specious one. In fact, it might be argued that Apple was too far ahead of game there in dropping that archaic software standard too early, alienating a few stalwarts to the ancient Flash platform...HTML5 is the future and its nice to see the Android developers finally figure that out.

I will agree on one point you made though, it would be nice to see Apple get a little more price competitive.

Wow! This is getting so personal. Especially you residents of the UK. Can't you learn from the Amercian experience and:

CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?

These devices and computers in general have become appliances to consumers. The problem with Apple is they have given older models the ability to have all the bells and whistles of newer models. Practically forced the newer versions upon us. Other companies do the same as this is how they make their money.

The lesson I have learned, and should have known, is to not upgrade to a new number upgrade (4 to 5, 5 to 6). At least for a long time until I can do, or want to do, enough research to determine the upgrade does not come with drawbacks.

Apple is just as bad as any other software developer. Remember Windows Millennium, Vista, and now 8? My mistake was in assuming Apple was somehow better than others in developing software with fewer problems.

From now on I will treat my computers like my washer and dryer. I will upgrade for security and bug fixes, but enhancements I will be very careful.

I dont understand where you can fight on this topic. Theres a huge memory leak/problem on iOS devices, and everyone denying that cant be taken seriously. I just got a iPad 4 and iPhone 5 gifted, but i wouldnt buy them anymore. Going for Android next time for sure. Even on my iPad 4 i got regular crashes if i dont close all my other apps before starting memory intensive ones.

You raise some fair points but for the richest company in the world to provide substandard hardware configurations and then further updates which will only make the issue worse is stupid and ignorant. It proves Apple doesn't give a monies (rightly none of the larger companies do) and are selling a pipe dream.

Apple has hardly ever provided me with working solutions to the numerous issues I've personally experienced and after you remove all the glits, they are purely a substandard solutions provider at best. They rely on BS marketing (all the large companies do) and very gullible (I've been in the boat) end users, that's it.

P.S. The American experience, it only works when you are all armed and even then it fails brilliantly. But it's the nature of the beast. This is an observation, not a slate!