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When was the last time that a commodity mobile phone soc was even remotely competitive with Apple's latest? 2012? That seems like rather strong evidence against
by jsnell 6y ago
When was the last time that a commodity mobile phone soc was even remotely competitive with Apple's latest? 2012? That seems like rather strong evidence against your theory.
- mrkstu 6y agoAgreed- all those competitors have been shown up by Apple for years. They've had to take it because they haven't been able to come up with a technical response- even those using the same foundries...
- AnthonyMouse 6y agohttps://benchmarks.ul.com/compare/best-smartphones https://benchmarks.ul.com/compare/best-smartphones https://www.gsmarena.com/benchmark-test.php3 https://www.gsmarena.com/benchmark-test.php3 I see a lot of Android devices at the top of those lists. Apple likes to cherry pick. For example, they require everything on iOS to use their browser engine, then they spend a lot of time optimizing their browser engine for their CPUs. But that's not superior hardware performance, it's software optimization, which they could do with whichever commodity CPU they chose as well. Intel does the same thing. They spend resources optimizing popular software for their CPUs. Qualcomm not so much.