When deciding which tablet to buy there is a first fundamental decision: do we want an Apple device or one with Android? This great gap Apple vs. the rest, represents the fundamental division in the field of tablets, although the duo will soon become a trio with the advent of tablets with Windows 8. An emphatic statement about which of the two systems is better seems more complicated to make, but can we at least make the more modest claim that Android is a less agile system? Then according to Andrew Munn, ex-Google engineer, yes.
The claim is undoubtedly controversial, although many users who have both types of devices they think it's true. What is undeniable is that agility of touch control it is a fundamental concern of Google. Just yesterday, when talking about the improvements that Jelly Bean introduces with respect to Ice Cream Sandwich, we mentioned the “Project Butter”. This Google project aims to optimize the responsiveness of the touch control, reducing the response of the device to the movement of our fingers to the minimum possible. That Google sees a fundamental improvement point in its tablets in this section, therefore, seems proven.
What would be the problem then? Obviously, it is not a question of hardware, since among the tablets equipped with Android there are those with processors more powerful than Apple's and yet reproduce the same problem. The solution, apparently, would be in the programming: in iOS when touching the screen all other processes stop, not so on Android. Google was forced to speed up testing Android due to the impending introduction of the iPhone at the time, and perhaps that caused some haste.
But this answer raises a fundamental new question: If the problem is known, why is Google looking for improvements like the 60 images per second of Jelly Bean instead of directly attack the question? The difficulty, it seems, lies in all the applications that would have to be rewritten and the very long time that could take, especially if we take into account the breakneck speed in which the world of mobile devices moves.