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?