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It is really good and has been like forever. You of course have to spend equal amounts as for an iPhone to get a high end experience, and it was like that back then as well. Many people failed to understand this and bought shitty underpowered handhelds, and blamed Android for being laggy.

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I had high end Android devices up to Android 7 and still experienced lagging and stuttering. It was clear there were optimisation issues with the software that couldn’t be solved by throwing hardware at.

Agree. I have a Samsung S21 which is supposed to be top of the range and I occasionally experience such poor performance that wouldn't be tolerated on a lower end iPhone. Android is really a mixed bag even on high end device. Sometimes it just flies then next minute it lags and stutters so badly...in the same app doing exactly the same thing. I only stay on Android due to pretty much a single app that's not available in iOS, otherwise I would be using an iPhone. They're not perfect but gosh iPhones are so much more polished, consistent and at least reasonably quick/smooth even if you have older/lower end devices.

Ever since iOS 15 came out I’ve been getting small stutters in CarPlay. I’m on an iPhone 12 Pro so it’s not a hardware speed issue.

You know what? You’re right. It sticks out like a sore thumb because it’s so different from my normal experience. I’m used to some 3rd party apps being terrible but not the OS itself.

(Never used Android for more than 5 minutes, can’t comment there)

Samsung devices (and I read, Xiaomi devices too, but to a lesser extent) have shitty performance. Yeah, they have excellent specs, but the software is horrible. I know this because Pixels are almost always guaranteed to be extremely fluid, but my comparable S10 suffers from significant stutters and lag.

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