[pace]

Isn't Google's staff working under NDA?

I love the open discussion about Android's weakest point and I appreciate opinions from all side, in particular those from inside Google -- but this uncoordinated communication on G+ addressing problems w/o delivering a solution damages Android's image to some extent.

[wmf]

It would be nice if Google could just say "responsiveness: we fixed it" but meanwhile I think these recent discussions are far better than the uninformed trolling that was going on before.

[marshray]

Did you see the part about "I’m interning with the Windows Phone team starting in January"?

Still, I don't have experience with iOS devices, but my Nexus S tends to be so laggy at times that apps crash frequently. (I had attributed it to GC).

[roflharrison]

>Still, I don't have experience with iOS devices, but my Nexus S tends to be so laggy at times that apps crash frequently.

This sounds more like poorly written apps than an issue from the article.

For example if you are scrolling a list view and it slows down to the point of crashing, the application probably isn't caching views or has a memory leak (application authors fault).

If your device gets sluggish and you get miscellaneous force closes I would look for applications with background services that are doing more work than they should be.

[zyb09]

How's that heavily damaging? Google is known to be open about its workings, and I think most people agree that an engineer explaining underlying concepts is a positive thing. Putting up NDAs on every little thing is just silly and annoying.

[jrockway]

It's an open source project. Google doesn't make any money from Android. It's just something they do for fun to advance their other business goals.