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> Yet, the Pixel 8 and iPhone 15 lines are price comparably.

But this isn't how pricing works. Even if it did the CPU isn't the most expensive component in the bom, and it isn't the most important component for user experience.

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The problem is that you can't easily and objectively factor the user experience. CPU are easy to benchmark — and do honestly factor a lot in the pricing. Android (the OS) development is payed for by other means, and the hardware line is kind of a vanity project.

People may, or may not prefer the Android experience. That's not relevant here.

At this point most of the reasons to buy a particular phone are inertial or emotional. A high end android phone and an iPhone both provide roughly the same functionality. I miss the times when new phones were more exciting.

I believe the parent comment was thinking about screen and camera quality, which can be benchmarked, contribute to the user experience and have significant costs.

Both of which are of high quality also on other phone in the same price range. That leave you with the CPU as a differentiator at the end, sad as it can be.

But it isn’t a differentiator if you can’t make people care about the difference.

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