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Re:After the iPhone 4S, Android just feels wrong by ZeroGravitas on Saturday October 22, 2011 @03:44AM (#3143103)
The Android devs mentioned this themselves in the very first comment on the bug about turning on GPU acceleration[1]. But the internet decided that GPU acceleration was the silver bullet, and now it's been turned on they're surprised that it's not.

And this is somehow further evidence of Google's incompetence (and/or lack of taste) rather than just the obvious result of a bunch of engineering tradeoffs that, if you look at Android marketshare and Google's resultant influence on the future of the web, seem to have worked out quite well for them.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914#c1

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Re:After the iPhone 4S, Android just feels wrong by chugger on Saturday October 22, 2011 @05:39PM (#3144388)
What Google should've done is disable the garbage collector in Android/Dalvik the same way Apple did in iOS/Obj C. I don't know whether it's lack of foresight or incompetence on the part of Google, or maybe they were in a hurry to launch Android they didn't have time to re-architect the thing. Garbage collection exists in MAC OS X/Obj C btw.
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