Yeah, he's comparing two entirely different things. The phone is instant when turning the display on. My laptop is near-instant when resuming from sleep. Neither are instant at actually booting up.
Agree, the only programs that start instantly on my android phone are the browser, phone and email apps and that's because they are probably always in memory.
Everything else has a splash screen time that would put Eclipse to shame.
Not to mention that HTC has now seen fit in the latest version of Sense to add a mandatory spinning animation that plays for ~2 seconds every time I unlock the phone before I am allowed to use it.
what phone does he use? every phone that I know of takes at least two minutes to come up from a cold start, and has for the last ten years...