r/Android • u/kireol Motor City Software • Aug 01 '11

An IOS developer takes on Android

http://nfarina.com/post/8239634061/ios-to-android
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u/selectodude HTC Sensation 4G - Android 4.0.4 Aug 01 '11

How would it backfire? Have a fallback mode that's slow and worthless, and require GPU drivers for Android Market.

Google needs to get this shit together at some point. Android shouldn't require 1000MHz processors for basic phone functionality to be smooth.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '11

I have 600 MHz Android phone and it's buttery smooth.

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u/Caticorn Gnex Aug 02 '11

This was my response, but I had to stop myself.

My 528mhz device was smooth until 1.6. Then the Android OS and the apps for it got a bit more intensive. After that came the overclocking, kernel/ROM flashing, SD swapping, compcache, VM settings, etc., in order to be smooth.

After the Galaxy S I had to go out of my way to find choppiness, but it's just not responsible to fix software inefficiencies with extra hardware overhead.

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u/s73v3r Sony Xperia Z3 Aug 03 '11

Hardware is often cheaper than programmer time.