[johnnybgoode]

Is this a defense for Android's poor responsiveness (often blamed on a lack of hardware acceleration), or is there some other context I'm missing?

Doesn't this make Android look even worse? I.e., "Android already has hardware acceleration but still doesn't seem to perform very well" means any hope of flipping some magical GPU acceleration switch and instantly fixing the problem is gone.

[nknight]

The context is a bunch of people going around pretending they know why Android behaves the way it does, when in fact they have no clue what they're talking about. It's not a defense of anything, it's just injecting facts where there has been a distinct lack of them.