Blame the language and not the platform is what you're essentially saying. Ok so initial payload can be what 600kb per your argument. But at least once I have delivered that my actual interactions on the server side can be somewhat a minimum instead of re-rendering more HTML and sending across the wire to the handset.
That being said yes you must develop on a crappy computer if you want to be known as dev that's known for making apps snappy. Is there a lot of fat one can cut from these frameworks yes... but I think Atwood's initial argument is that android just sucks with Javascript. The many cores, single thread per tab just makes the experience anemic with rich web applications.
That being said yes you must develop on a crappy computer if you want to be known as dev that's known for making apps snappy. Is there a lot of fat one can cut from these frameworks yes... but I think Atwood's initial argument is that android just sucks with Javascript. The many cores, single thread per tab just makes the experience anemic with rich web applications.