I wasn't talking about the Nexus One, I was talking about the iPad vs the Galaxy Tab. And I didn't say that GC was what was slowing down Angry Birds, I was talking about subjective relative performance between Android and iOS.

The point of my criticism is that memory management in objective-c doesn't take any extra time beyond overloading dealloc and writing a few more retains and releases for 90% of all cases. It's just plain lazy, imo. Your comparison to writing raw assembler is nonsense and ignorant.