[ChuckMcM]

Fair enough. To your last point, this is weak rhetoric but in this case its also a financial tool that is commonly employed to determine rates of return. The comparison is made between investment 'X', and keeping the money around during the time X would be implemented (the 'do nothing' option). It tries to capture the opportunity cost.

To the 80% question, my claim is that this is exactly what Google did, they got 80% of the way there and in phones that worked. In tablets however the additional screen real estate magnified this weakness in graphics below the 'good enough' threshold. It was great that the Nexus 7 made great strides in this area, the Nexus 7 is manufactured by Asus (which made the Transformer Prime, and now the Transformer Infinity) that the graphics did not improve until Google made it the 'Google Nexus 7' (which sounds like they drove more of the decisions) was a problem for the Android ecosystem in general.

My thesis is that 'fixing' it so that Asus and anyone else can build a fabulous graphics experience on Android is possibly the best investment they could make.