Hello,
Till this point I consider Mercury more stable then Safari. But it turned now the other way around. Safari did immediately crash on the website. After a second time it was fine, but later it crashed again. Mercury crashes instantly on this website. BTW: I do like Mercury much better then Safari, not only because it works also fine on my Galaxy S4 ;-).
I have notice since 7.1 that with Safari that sometimes a first visit or start on a website crashes Safari, but a second visit on the website then works OK. Rather then some caching or so I do not really get this behavior.
Anyhow all this think, experimenting, user experience about a Apple Product with a big flaw should just not be need. Apple was one of the last company were I thought products do work decent out of the box. I believe those times are gone and Apple joins Windows & Andriod camp in that respect with too many issues and endless upgrades.
When I (actually family device) bought an iPad 2 years ago, it was at the time the only decent tablet. Beside one hick up upgrading to iOS 6 at a given time, we loved the iPad. In the meantime 7-inch tablets grew in the family with a HP 7 Slate and Nexus 7 2012. I still bought the iPad Air as it was seen still the best 10-inch tablet at the begin of this year. However as mentioned earlier I was heavily doubting about the Samsung 10.1 Note 2014. I was at the point of bring the iPad Air back to the store, but waited for 7.1. I am still not sure what is the better choice in this case. If the iPad Air would have shown as flawless as when I got the iPad 2, no question about it. I would be a happy camper :-) But now I have a very mixed feeling. :-(
Brgds,
Bas.