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Well, I wouldn't have installed Android L if I knew how it was going to (1) slow my tablet down, (2) have problems with WiFi, and (3) look awful.

There's a reason why they ran ads for the Nexus devices last month that only showed the devices turned off.

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My Samsung tablet runs 4.4.2 and since I rooted it, it tells me "this device has been modified and cannot be updated". Sounds like I'm not missing out on much!

You are, I have a very old galaxy tab that runs lollipop and it's much faster than previous versions.

This might just be Samsung's "take" on the update. I have an old rooted Nexus 7 (2012), and it updated to Lollipop just fine. Performance is quite poor, but the update process itself was perfectly smooth.

Was the performance on your 2012 Nexus 7 already very poor before L? I had read that the missing trim stuff came in kitkat, but my Nexus 7 2012 is painfully slow.

You didn't mention the lack of backwards compatibility. Broke Kindle, for example.

Meh, apps had more than enough time in order to adapt to Lollipop changes and almost all of them were explained from the first preview.

The source didn't get published until long afterwards. Firefox got broken because of this - and also because the previews had several other bugs that prevented it from starting up in the first place and detecting more problems.

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