> And yet my high-end Android phone is slower and jankier where it counts most to me: UI stuff. Has no relation to SoC. My Pixel 4 is noticeably smoother than

> And yet my high-end Android phone is slower and jankier where it counts most to me: UI stuff. Has no relation to SoC. My Pixel 4 is noticeably smoother than iPhone 11 I tried. > It's the same reason why I still willing to pay the Apple premium for laptops (although more and more begrudgingly so). I don't care about better raw specs when sleep mode still doesn't quite work, or the fans are unreasonably loud, or the trackpad sucks, and I haven't really cared about these things since I switched from my custom-built tower PC back in the day. I am typing this on a $2000 i7 Macbook Pro 2017 running hot as a pipe. The same workload works a lot cooler on my $500 Ryzen 3500u laptop. The plastic is much comfortable to hold even when things get hotter compared to unbearable metal of Macbook. And don't even get me started on the Keyboard.