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for Apple. By that I mean $100,000 or more for each team member for an app.

the same game on each and when it’s ready to play move on to rendering out the same video on each device, and then on to the next app, etc. 

Sorry but opening 16 apps and immediately closing them again twice is not a "real life speed test".  Although with 4GB of RAM - the same as the Pixel 3, even in these tests the iPhone XS is faster than the Pixel 3.

In contrast, exporting 4K video, opening a PDF, browsing a web page, comparing games frame rates are all actual real-world tests and the iPhone utterly dominates Android devices in all of them.

No, the iPhone X delivering 64 fps in a 3D rendered game vs 45 fps for the S9 is actual real-world usage. So is opening a PDF file 8.6x faster, so is exporting a video to share 4.4x faster, so is rendering a complex web page 3.5x faster.

In all the REAL-WORLD tests, the iPhone utterly dominates Android flagships.

It is quite amusing how spec-obsessed Android fans are now so desperate to discount all the industry-standard benchmarks that are specifically designed to find out which devices have the best performance. Merely because their favourite devices are so convincingly beaten by Apple's custom, optimised silicon.

inaccurate as the 2018 figure of 91% loyalty is from a different company (CIRP) with a different methodology and the 2017 figure is from Statista. Only the 2019 figure of 73% is from BankMyCell's own data using their own methodology.

CIRP in fact reports that iPhone loyalty in 2019 is actually at an all-time high of 91%

But the kicker is that if we DO look at BankMyCell's own data for 2018 (as shown in the graph below), it shows that iPhone loyalty has INCREASED 2.7% instead of decreased.

In other words, this whole story is completely bogus with BankMyCell showing two completely different results with the supposed drop only appearing based on a faulty comparison with different survey company results and methodology.

If they had stuck with their own data for 2018 and 2019, the article would be all about how iPhone loyalty had increased since last year.

Completely Crazy. 

reality for the vast majority of people but don't take my word for it. Ask and investigate for yourself!

The same applies to Apple. Have you seen anyone clamouring to upgrade older handsets because of speed? People are holding onto their iPhones for longer and one of the reasons is that speed - even.on two year old hardware - is fine.

On the other hand faster WiFi, faster modems, signal stability, batteries and charging etc are still important to many users.

Like I said, look around you. Who is complaining about the speed of the Kirin 980, QC845 etc? 

Do you agree that for the vast majority of users, speed isn't a problem?

or China. And insignificant in India, Brasil, etc. Does Huawei woes (and Apple's expanding offerings in services, ecosystem) mean potential leaps serving more rising middle class? But I guess that's a whole set of articles. ;-)