I largely agree with you. Its funny that &quot;low feature&quot; 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&#x27;ve noticed has come from advances in hardware tech - SSDs, faster RAM, GPUs, etc.<p>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 &quot;do more&quot; 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.<p>You can&#x27;t expect a hardware company to write good software - All smart TV&#x27;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 The IoT is going to be a goldmine with outdated libraries, unpatched vulnerabilities and other goodies.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&#x27;t think of the a single Google product that I used that was &quot;highly responsive&quot;. 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&#x27;t used Android recently so I can&#x27;t comment, but the last time I had an android phone it got replaced with an iPhone 4S within a week.