Yes, because the scrolling is very well supported by hardware. But you will notice the slowness when you are zooming in/out of pages (the font smoothing takes a

Yes, because the scrolling is very well supported by hardware. But you will notice the slowness when you are zooming in/out of pages (the font smoothing takes about half a second). But Apple got it right compared to Android, and you are right that even today the iPad holds up well, considering its hardware (reminds me of the C64 which was able to smoothscroll because of hardware support, while the PC didn't manage it at that time)