Tolerable

Ryan Paul, reviewing the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1:

The single biggest problem with Honeycomb at launch was the platform-wide instability. Many applications, including Google’s own first-party software, crashed repeatedly during use. The number of force-closes that we encountered while testing the Xoom made it look like the software was pushed out the door without enough testing.

Stability has fortunately gotten a boost in Android 3.1. Application crashes still cropped up during our week of testing the Tab 10.1, but these were well within tolerable boundaries. The software is finally stable enough for comfortable day-to-day use, and this is frankly the level of quality that should have been in place for the Xoom at launch.

I’m not sure Apple would be willing to ship something that even after an update had a “tolerable” number of crashes.

While Samsung may have iPad-quality hardware, Android is still trying to catch iOS in many areas.