[richworks]

I wonder... if almost everyone knows and complains about the smoothness in Android being not as good as iOS(consistently, I mean)... Isn't Google aware of this? Or does achieving impeccable smoothness come at a cost(increased memory usage?).. which means that Google are in the crossroads here, trying to balance fluid UX and efficient memory management?

Or is it because Apple and Microsoft have been leaders in software engineering for more than a couple of decades and may have mastered the ins and outs of Operating Systems.. and since it has been only 5-6 years that Google has been working on Android, are they still competitively behind Apple and MS in this regard? and so that we can hope for improvement?

[jan_g]

There are millions of users out there (including myself), who don't care about smoothness or (in my case) don't even notice any difference between an ios or android scrolling. Also, you have to take into consideration the fact that majority of users had considerably slower feature phone before buying android phone. To them, android is blazingly fast.

[huggyface]

if almost everyone knows and complains about the smoothness in Android being not as good as iOS

To the average user it is a complete non-issue: It's one of those things that you have to essentially point out to them. It is an issue for iOS boosters, however, because it's what they see as Android's Achilles heal.