[scarface74]

The average Android device is not exactly a top of the kind phone on top of that, Java based Android apps aren’t exactly known for performance.

If the top of the line Android phones are slower than the $399 SE, can you imagine how slow the average Android phone is?

But I think this is all a moot point, there shouldn’t be any heavy lifting on the client and all phones have special hardware to handle streaming video.

[fomine3]

Now its Java is relatively fast thanks to ART (AOT) meanwhile Safari need to JIT compile JS (and dynamic lang). Java can also utilize multithreads.

I agree that iPhone SE is steal cheap for chip performance.