> They save money on things they don’t control like batteries because the faster CPU uses less power, etc. Everyone else is stuck with whatever garbage Qualcomm

> They save money on things they don’t control like batteries because the faster CPU uses less power, etc. Everyone else is stuck with whatever garbage Qualcomm is dishing out. I don't think the battery/CPU relation you posit is true - the A13 is faster in single-core performance than the Snapdragon 865 (or 855), but consumes more total power to do the same work: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/15207/SPEC2006_S865.png https://images.anandtech.com/doci/15207/SPEC2006_S865.png I think all this tells you is that ARM's big cores chose a power/performance curve point well below the A13. The upcoming Cortex-X1 in next year's 875 will be their first attempt at breaking into that market.