[filoleg]

Where do you think Apple got the expertise and prior experience for hitting a homerun with M1?

The gap was always there, but people don’t tend to look at tech specs on phones the same way as they do on desktops (which makes sense, given that most smartphone users aren’t tech people who would care much bout it).

And specs themselves are often not mapped to real performance on phones too, so it is mostly meaningless. Flagship Androids almost always have more RAM and larger battery capacity than flagship iPhones. But it doesn’t translate into longer battery life or better performance at all (due to power and OS optimization differences, different chip architectures, etc), so those numbers on their own don’t mean much to most people. And even if they cared, it won’t be easy to make a solid comparison.

All I can say from personal experience, as a user I felt that performance gap really acutely when switching from my Galaxy S8+ to iPhone 11.