Re:Apple's iPhones Trail Samsung, Google Devices in Internet...
by lern_too_spel on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @11:45AM
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You're assuming something about the distribution of speeds. If they're mostly the same but some are significantly and unusably worse, that is different from the speeds being mostly slightly lower.
Yes and no.
> Ookla’s data ... iPhone X ... 31.5 Mbps ... 25.1 Mbps.
> The Galaxy S9+, ... 38.2 Mbps on Verizon and 34.2 Mbps on Sprint.
If you buy a phone for this feature, then I suppose it would matter. But IRL no one cares about these performance numbers until/unless they're separated by an order of magnitude.
> I don't know that additional download speed would be useful to me at the moment.
Until someone comes up with clever new applications to consume this bandwidth, I agree: it's just not useful.
I really prefer android and I like the Snapdragon phones. Clearly, AAPL made a smart bet in dual-sourcing the modems. People do not buy iPhones because they expect superior throughput. Device performance/latency likely matters much more than network performance.