Where do you see this? The requirements of the program directly contradict what you're saying as you need to be a registered business, have an address in a commercially zoned area, and have an apple repair certification.
- Sent from my iPhone SE
I expect you are going to cite something that shows an artificial benchmark run for 3 seconds.
I think Geekbench is what Tiobe is to programming language rankings or Fox news is to objective news coverage.
If you can't run the same tasks on the same OS you probably can't objectively compare them in a meaningful way. Lack of good data however doesn't excuse using bad data. After absorbing bad data you actually know less than when you started because you think you have objective analysis.
I agree, storage speed is probably appalling - you still can't sync your iPhone over USB 3.0 - takes half a day to do so after a vacation...
Even after that you can't deny transistor count and numbers we have. If you have better ones - do present them.
We aren't discussing smartphone applications. The topic of discussion was whether current generation iphones are on par with 2018 Macbooks. I think the practical answer is that the cpu on the phone is inherently limited by battery/heat/storage speed in actual usage. If the poster had simply said "felt as snappy as" it would be hard to disagree with a subjective feeling. I don't think their objective analysis is as defensible.
While I don't disagree with your point, we should realize both iPhone and MBP do throttling.
It also tells me Apple is comfortable enough with their services revenue to stop desperately pushing for increasing device sales every quarter.
I have a 3 year old phone (iPhone7+) but barring some really new awesome features I'd be happy to continue spending on the Apple ecosystem (music, apps, subscriptions, etc) and service the old phone - though if the new offering is nice, I would probably upgrade too.