Everything about Android is a rushed project. Rubin's team was running scared of OpenMoko hype, Blackberry success in enterprise, and Windows Mobile everywhere

Everything about Android is a rushed project. Rubin's team was running scared of OpenMoko hype, Blackberry success in enterprise, and Windows Mobile everywhere else. Then Google snatch it up and ran scared of Apple. And now here we are. Android needs an 18-24 "gap" period of re-engineering everything they rushed, but at that point you might as well just write a new OS. I suspect there is a secret 2nd version of Android that isn't virtual machine based, doesn't use Java, but has whatever backwards compatibility needed to work with the existing applications. If things get too hot from Oracle, then that will be the next version of Android. Switching to ART seems to suggest that Google has some portability chops here. Incremental updates like they're doing now is the path of least resistance, but considering how much more polished iOS is, I really doubt Android will ever be on that level. Its always going to be a little quick and dirty and I think if you buy an Android product you have to accept that. I switched to the Nexus products from my 3GS. I knew Android was a step down in a lot of ways, but I wanted the hardware flexibility it offered. Now that I can get a big Apple phone with a swype keyboard AND it works with Android smartwatches, it seems the Android value proposition keeps getting weaker and weaker.