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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alan Shutko" data-source="post: 5609252" data-attributes="member: 23694">Not entirely. iOS does have an advantage over Android in terms of UI latency, and it's not just due to a lack of features.iPads have hardware accelerated graphics for most of their animations and transitions. That's the advantage of having control over your hardware platform. Android devices before Honeycomb do the UI completely on the CPU. Honeycomb devices do have <a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914" target="_blank">hardware UI acceleration</a> but it seems that it's still not as polished as it is on iOS. Which isn't surprising: it's brand new instead of 4 years old and Android has to support a wider variety of hardware than Apple does.  That's where the first-mover advantage comes in.  But of course, first mover isn't insurmountable.Android reviews, and the WebOS reviews that have just come out, generally get a lot of credit for their platform and features, but a lot of that is just potential until enough apps come out to satisfy the majority of users. And on price, the problem for competitors is that Apple has done very well at sourcing components in huge volumes (often paying in advance) and getting good deals on them, so they can market the iPad at prices that are hard to beat. Right now, competitors can market as being cheaper (but lower quality hardware), good hardware but a smaller app store and worse for general users, or good hardware and great platform for hobbyists or specific niches.</blockquote>

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