You have a point. The tighter you can control the hardware, the tighter the integration with the OS will be. Windows Phone, iPhone, game consoles, they can all make due with slower hardware than more general-purpose systems.
Android makes some tradeoffs to give their users choice. It has upsides and downsides, but the true benefit is that people can decide for themselves if they want beefier hardware to run the same relative speed but have more control over the OS, or if they want the other give-and-take. There's less overhead on iOS and WP7, but there's also less control.
I love the market we have right now. There's almost literally something for everyone. I just wish Palm was back in to round it out with WebOS.
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The phone is not slow and old, the OS is a resource hog. Compare the specs to a Windows phone and see how smoothly it runs with similar hardware.
You have a point. The tighter you can control the hardware, the tighter the integration with the OS will be. Windows Phone, iPhone, game consoles, they can all make due with slower hardware than more general-purpose systems.
Android makes some tradeoffs to give their users choice. It has upsides and downsides, but the true benefit is that people can decide for themselves if they want beefier hardware to run the same relative speed but have more control over the OS, or if they want the other give-and-take. There's less overhead on iOS and WP7, but there's also less control.
I love the market we have right now. There's almost literally something for everyone. I just wish Palm was back in to round it out with WebOS.