This has been stuck in my head for well over a week now so I'll just put it here 
Nexus phone are supposed to be reference designs for the OEM's, if that is the case then why is there not more effort put into optimizing them. When I flashed my HTC One mini I did it expecting to get a performance increase, delete core apps I don't use and hopefully get a bit better battery life and I go all of those. When I flashed my Nexus I just wanted to delete core apps I don't use to reduce the bloat and shrink the install size, all of that happened but I got 500 GB points out of the flash. If Cyanogenmod and Franco i.e. some random dudes on the internet can take a phone from 2500ish to 3000ish it's seem that Google out to be able to also.
Before this get into a debate about benchmarks I understand that benchmarks don't reflect actual real work performance and in this case it's also true, the phone doesn't "feel" faster. I don't care for GeekBench because I think it's a bad cross platform benchmark but what it does show is that a group of people on the net are better at optimizing than Google is on their own phone. What does that say about Google and using a Nexus as a reference?
Nexus phone are supposed to be reference designs for the OEM's, if that is the case then why is there not more effort put into optimizing them. When I flashed my HTC One mini I did it expecting to get a performance increase, delete core apps I don't use and hopefully get a bit better battery life and I go all of those. When I flashed my Nexus I just wanted to delete core apps I don't use to reduce the bloat and shrink the install size, all of that happened but I got 500 GB points out of the flash. If Cyanogenmod and Franco i.e. some random dudes on the internet can take a phone from 2500ish to 3000ish it's seem that Google out to be able to also.
Before this get into a debate about benchmarks I understand that benchmarks don't reflect actual real work performance and in this case it's also true, the phone doesn't "feel" faster. I don't care for GeekBench because I think it's a bad cross platform benchmark but what it does show is that a group of people on the net are better at optimizing than Google is on their own phone. What does that say about Google and using a Nexus as a reference?