The reason iOS is so smooth compared to Android is actually something very core to the philosophy of each operating system. iOS assesses GUI rendering as a priority thread. If something is moving on the screen it jumps straight to the front of the queue. Android assesses it as a normal priority and so background tasks still get processed at the same time even when the GUI is moving.
I think iOS is definitely beautiful and I'm still not sure which is the better design philosophy with regards to GUI.
I showed a perfect example of how you can see this to my brother. He has an ipad 2 and while a web page was in the middle of loading I started scrolling up and down and until I stopped scrolling, the page didn't load any more.
My main computer is a Macbook Pro and I'm almost always running OSX so I'm not an Apple hater or anything. Apple's #1 priority is aesthetics and Google's #1 priority is functionality. Everyone has different feelings about these two things so between iProducts and Android devices I would never say one is definitively better than the other.
Sometimes a silky smooth OS animation makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, and sometimes you just want to use your free VNC client to remote into your linux server.
I think iOS is definitely beautiful and I'm still not sure which is the better design philosophy with regards to GUI.
I showed a perfect example of how you can see this to my brother. He has an ipad 2 and while a web page was in the middle of loading I started scrolling up and down and until I stopped scrolling, the page didn't load any more.
My main computer is a Macbook Pro and I'm almost always running OSX so I'm not an Apple hater or anything. Apple's #1 priority is aesthetics and Google's #1 priority is functionality. Everyone has different feelings about these two things so between iProducts and Android devices I would never say one is definitively better than the other.
Sometimes a silky smooth OS animation makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, and sometimes you just want to use your free VNC client to remote into your linux server.
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