Smart pointers instead of GC?

[renoX]

On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 02:59:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 2/3/14, 5:51 PM, Manu wrote:
>> I'd have trouble disagreeing more; Android is the essence of 
>> why Java
>> should never be used for user-facing applications.
>> Android is jerky and jittery, has random pauses and lockups 
>> all the
>> time, and games on android always jitter and drop frames. Most 
>> high-end
>> games on android now are written in C++ as a means to mitigate 
>> that
>> problem, but then you're back writing C++. Yay!
>> iOS is silky smooth by comparison to Android.
>
> Kinda difficult to explain the market success of Android.
>
> Andrei

Are you agreeing or disagreeing with his point?
I don't know about other Android phones, but on my Galaxy S3 what 
he says is true and just the other day I had to reboot my phone 
as it was very, very slow, the reboot made it "fast" again..

I don't like Apple (nor Microsoft), so I'm stuck with Android, 
but this doesn't mean that I consider that Android is good.. For 
me it's like Windows in the early days, not very good but usable.

renoX