[D_Drake]

So, in summary, "We have hardware acceleration, have had it for a long time, but it isn't the reason android interfaces are almost universally clunky. We actually have no idea why that is."

I don't use any apple products but I get tired of Google touting how much better 4.0 is when most people are locked into phones running 2.2 or 2.3 for years into the future.

[nextparadigms]

A lot of the 2011 phones should be updated to Android 4.0, and the ones who bought them in 2010 will upgrade next year to Android 4.0 phones.

[kalid]

http://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orphan...

[D_Drake]

If I hadn't had a family member willing to give up their upgrade for me, I would be locked into a phone running 1.6 until May 2012, one which has no custom ROMs.

[adgar]

> We actually have no idea why that is.

Way to take what started as a reasonable post and trash it with a needless, baseless insult.

[D_Drake]

The non-smoothness of android interfaces is a gigantic hulking monstrosity of an issue. I deal with it dozens of times a day, and have been for years now on multiple phones. It is the sole reason why anyone cares whether android does hardware or software graphics acceleration. No one would care if there wasn't a problem for which they picked software acceleration as a cause.

The post spends pages on how hardware acceleration in android is just fine, but it completely ignores the actual problem. This is like a man in court for a DUI who bases his whole defense around the fact that he has a legitimate driver's license.

Going from Heinlein's razor, I assume that google does not know the cause of the problem. The alternative is that google is deliberately trying to mislead us by ensconcing the clunkiness issue within the hardware acceleration issue in the belief that by disproving the software acceleration claims they can nullify the elephant in the room: poor user interface performance.