On a hardware level they're not. They are built on the same feature size as other mobile SoCs. But just look at the benchmarks. Apple SoCs slaughter Qualcomm a

On a hardware level they're not. They are built on the same feature size as other mobile SoCs. But just look at the benchmarks. Apple SoCs slaughter Qualcomm and Samsung chips in mobile benchmarks. Yes, they're highly optimised for their workload, but the point is that Apple is much better at doing this than everyone else making mobile SoCs.