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The "i" in "iPhone" stands for "inequality", late 2025 edition:

18 Nov 2025

Wonder what the $ vs Geekbench score ratio is — might work it out if I find time later in the week I moved to iOS because I got fed up with Android being abandonware — I tend to keep my phones for 5 years

Alex Russell

@infrequently.org

18 Nov 2025

I plotted that out too. The good news is that cheap phones are good value; the band news is...well...everything else.

Alex Russell

@infrequently.org

*bad news What'll really blow your mind is how cache-rich the top-tier parts are. I've been going on (and on and on) about this for years, but the "more cache, fewer cores" tradeoff has been ripe in Androidlandia for years, and is only just now being picked: