I largely agree with you. Its funny that "low feature" devices have such an instant response to input while modern devices running on processors that are thousa

I largely agree with you. Its funny that "low feature" devices have such an instant response to input while modern devices running on processors that are thousands of times faster are slow and laggy as hell. The only major speedup I've noticed has come from advances in hardware tech - SSDs, faster RAM, GPUs, etc. I feel like responsiveness, low-latency and high-performance especially when it comes to UI stuff is where it comes down to taste. Frankly most people are unlikely to be bothered by a laggy UI. This applies to programmers as well. IMO, the only people I would rely upon to write performant (consumer oriented) code primarily exist only in the games industry. I feel like being forced to "do more" on a hardware platform that is going to be static over the course of the next five years self-selects people who are good at saving cycles and extracting performance. You can't expect a hardware company to write good software - All smart TV's and such are going to suck big time. The IoT is going to be a goldmine with outdated libraries, unpatched vulnerabilities and other goodies. But you should expect more from professional software developers. Unfortunately, I can't think of the a single Google product that I used that was "highly responsive". Certainly the ones that I use regularly - Chrome, Gmail, Maps, Search have consistently all gone downhill in terms of memory bloat, cpu consumption and responsiveness. I haven't used Android recently so I can't comment, but the last time I had an android phone it got replaced with an iPhone 4S within a week.