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[Benjamin Tegge <benjaminosm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Leon,

Prejudices are not a good conversation starter if you seek for valuable
advice. Just because you heard that Android runs some flavour of Java and
you personally have never heard about anything  good coming from Java
doesn't mean that performance of apps running on top of Android is or will
always be poor. You can also write poor performing code for other languages
and platforms or you could write blazing fast performing code that nobody
wants to use.

Ubuntu Touch is still in early pre-release/development stage. Some of the
core components are not even ready for dogfooding the developers and early
adopter community. Even after the initial release in October Ubuntu Touch
will evolve like the other leading mobile platforms have during the past
years and continue to do so.

If you're interested in seeing Ubuntu Touch mature day by day get a Nexus
phone and start your journey. If you want to get into developing apps that
are ready for prime time and publish them so that a lot of people can use
them immediately then Android is a good choice. Some of the videos about
Android from the past Google IO events are worth watching, because they
explain that there is more needed for an app to become successful/usable
than just plain performance. Learning how users interact with software and
devices is time well spent. And you probably get to know what the
competition does wrong and how to improve the status quo.

Regards, Benjamin