I agree that it makes android a lot larger; however, I feel you underestimate the cost to make an iPhone app. Also, I feel you are underestimating the 'theoert

I agree that it makes android a lot larger; however, I feel you underestimate the cost to make an iPhone app. Also, I feel you are underestimating the 'theoertical possibilities'. I have a custom keyboard (swype) that allows me to "type" extremely fast. On my computer, I use Chrome; it integrates poorly with KDE's UI, but since it is so damn fast compared to firefox, I use it. Finally, a quality loss is very debatable for cross-compiled apps. Polarbit (http://polarbit.com/ http://polarbit.com/) cross compiles to iphone, android and Symbian and their apps are quite good. Performance might not be such a big deal either - high-end Android phones spec-wise are significantly better than the 3GS; this advantage should make up for slower apps.