While "lying fanboy" is a little harsh, I think there's something behind the misrepresenting how serious the crashes are and that their unquantifiable and unfalsifiable. I suspect most reports are anecdotal, like "Safari crashed while I was playing Desktop Tower Defense, and I was just about to have the highest score ever!", which is more of an emotional position than objective/analytical. At this point, it's in no one's best interest, other than consumers, to collect information on crashes and do something about them. Steve Jobs would actually have to (gasp!) eat his words if it's not flash that is crashing and Adobe would actually have to (gasp!) fix the bugs if it is. And bug fixing doesn't make headlines. This disagreement between Jobs and Adobe gets the pageviews.
Fedora 12 has an "automatic bug reporting tool" that is annoying in that it often shows up when you aren't expecting it, or when you know something crashed that Fedora folks can't do anything about -- so I've usually opted not to submit the things it wants to report. But that may be a losing battle in the long run, since more data collected could actually get bugs fixed, and then there are statistics on how frequently crashes are a problem for people. Thing is, I know how much bogus stuff gets collected with these kinds of tools, and it's difficult to sift through, so in some sense, I think I'm actually helping them by not submitting things I think may be bogus.
Fedora 12 has an "automatic bug reporting tool" that is annoying in that it often shows up when you aren't expecting it, or when you know something crashed that Fedora folks can't do anything about -- so I've usually opted not to submit the things it wants to report. But that may be a losing battle in the long run, since more data collected could actually get bugs fixed, and then there are statistics on how frequently crashes are a problem for people. Thing is, I know how much bogus stuff gets collected with these kinds of tools, and it's difficult to sift through, so in some sense, I think I'm actually helping them by not submitting things I think may be bogus.