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You are comparing apples and oranges.

If you are running the same application on equivalent hardware at the same API level then you should be fine.

Android has issues with hardware as well as the various API versions. The closest parallel in Java would be comparing a Pentium 4 running Java 1.3 vs some 12 core server running Java 1.7 or something.

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Equivalent hardware in the Android universe is the Nexus 5 (plain Android UI), Samsung S5 (using Samsung's UI customization, TouchWiz), HTC One M8 (Sense UI), and Moto X (almost plain Android UI, but not quite).

So a closer parallel would be that 12 core server running Java 1.7 can have its UI skinned by different device manufacturers, and that the UI actually makes a great deal for acceptance of the app in the marketplace.

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