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The Android Lag Fix That Really Wasn't
jfruh writes "When Android was first introduced, it got much of its buzz in the open source community, and despite it being a mobile juggernaut backed by huge companies, it remains an open source project that anyone can submit code to. Thus, when a community patch that claimed to reduce the lag that still plagues the platform was created, it rocketed around various community code sites and was widely praised. The only problem: it didn't actually speed Android up."
> I find that anyone used to an iOS device can pick up a Nexus 7 and notice the lag.
I find that you're full of shit. We're people that were used to PhoneOS devices and then defected to Android devices. I was actually a little surprised how quickly the non-geek iFan in the household took to Android.
I figured that "ecosystem" would at least hold her back.
"lag" has never been an issue.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
The OP is simply yet another MS shill trying to spread the usual FUD.
Speaking from personal experience I own an Ipad 2 and a Nexus 4, the UI in the iPad 2 is smooth as silk as usual, the UI in the Nexus 4 is even better in terms of speed and responsiveness. Switching between applications is seamless and the UI will not drop a single frame.
The user experience in Android was lacking until Matias Duarte took over the UI, in modern phones it's as good if not better than anything on the market, period.
We've got an iPad 3 and every pdf app is intolerably slow at rendering to the extent that I have almost entirely written it off as a computing device.
It will clearly be several generations before tablets are a practical replacement for a laptop.
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