I can name many friends of mine that talk down towards the iPhone because their <current state of the art android phone> has more cores or ram or ghz, but what

I can name many friends of mine that talk down towards the iPhone because their <current state of the art android phone> has more cores or ram or ghz, but what does that actually materialize into? If the extra performance doesn't actually do anything for the user then why waste the money on it? Apple has an amazing UX and doesn't need to throw pointless numbers at you to get you to buy their phone.