No, an old iPhone won’t beat the Snapdragon X Elite

Perhaps the most damning comparison comes on X (formerly Twitter), where one user says that the Snapdragon X Elite’s single-core performance is slower than an iPhone 12 Mini. Yikes. For those who can’t comprehend how f*cking miserable this is, X Elite’s actual big core performance is slower than the 4-year-old A14 chip in the iPhone 12 mini.

Apple keeps fragmenting the iPhone because it pays

By now, it has become clear that Apple will continue fragmenting its iPhones to nudge people towards its most expensive tiers, simply because it works. Fragmentation paid off, and the exclusivity of Apple Intelligence will only exacerbate that trend to squeeze extra revenue from the iPhone’s already record average selling price.