1- Roboto looks very good on the phone.

On. The. Phone. On Android. On. Android. Everybody is liking it. People migrating from iOS does not have an issue.

2- As a designer, you elected design as one of two reasons for OS success.

Well, understandable but wrong, as the desktop wars proved it before the smartphone wars.

3- Finally, your analogy is flawed, fallacious and only hides your real goal: exercise your futurology about Android failure.

The was NO REASON at all to bring Ubuntu and its market share to this if not to infer that the reason (ugliness) that made Ubuntu fail on the desktop will make Android fail (in the future, because current trends negate your argument).

Very, very easy fallacy to detect. Otherwise, you’d have compared to Windows and its ugly Arial, a much closer analogy (both OSes are leaders in share, both have an ugly copycat font etc.). But, of course, comparing to Windows would actually paint a more favorable comparison to Android and its revival of the desktop wars, which seems to be the opposite of your true goal in that article. Sorry if that’s looks harsh, but that’s my impression after that flawed analogy when there were much more obvious and pertinent options to compare against.

4- Don’t talk about why Android requires more processing power.

First of of, that link is laughable. It’s just a bunch of “Mac, iPhone and iPad” (as it says) people whining about Android. It’s laughable and evident. A bunch of people trying to throw rocks at Android’s window for any reason. Well, I believe it’s because Android’s success (and Windows Phone, who knows) may reduce their market opportunities in the future. They may soon find themselves reduced to a niche, just like people who designed for Macintoshes of yesterday.

As a designer, you (and them) clearly don’t understand why, besides other things, Android had to be engineered to run everywhere, from phones to toasters to compact cameras to TVs, making modern tech closer to the dream of ubiquity computing.

That is contrary to the designer platform of choice that is iOS, an elephant balancing over a ball that falls apart just because you put it to run on a marginally different resolution or a different aspect ratio.

Yes, there was a lag, but it’s constantly improving. Besides, again, contrary to the illusion circus of iOS, where the UI runs in privileged threads, making the real tasks run slower (ever noticed iOS taking too much time to load something even though it’s still snappy? Again, the illusion circus). Work around human senses. “Magic”.

If you want to talk about bad things on Android, please let me in, because as an Android user (former iPhone 4 user), I know quite some. But please, if you do, try harder next time.