Mike Rundle:

Pervasive lag? On a mobile device that’s running the very latest Android version? Powered by one of the beefiest mobile processors in the world? Samsung’s cream-of-the-crop phone running Ice Cream Sandwich is still, still laggy?

Totally fucking unacceptable.

Everything that is wrong with Android can be summarised with that one sentence.

So what if it’s a little you may ask. Mike puts it succinctly:

Imagine if your mouse cursor couldn’t keep up with your hand movements, or if letters didn’t appear on the screen until a moment after you pressed your keyboard. That’s how egregious of a user experience problem this is. If a user interface doesn’t respond as quickly as possible to a user’s intentions and movements, it’s a pile of rubbish.

If that still doesn’t stand out to you, imagine your car’s steering wheel lagging behind your steering input—how annoying (and dangerous) that would be!

Here’s how it looks like, Mobile Safari on 3GS versus Android’s Browser: