10-02-2013, 05:13 PM
Benchmark apps want to know what the maximum speed the hardware can handle is. They whitelist them so that they can see.
It's like complaining that using SpeedTest.net to measure your ping and speed to D.C. is cheating the system because really most of the time you're communicating with California. Yeah, well, Speedtest isn't generally used to measure "likely speed in most conditions". It's supposed to measure maximum speed.
Same for benchmark apps.
Maybe more to the point, I'll care more when I actually feel my CPU/GPU performance is a problem. Buying something that's faster than an S4 is a bit like going shopping for a video card and getting the latest top-of-the-line card. You'll spend more money getting something you don't really need.
(And really it's a lot sillier to do this for phones. You might keep your video card for 5 years and grow into it. 5 years from now you'll be on the iPhone 10s and your current iPhone will be lost in a drawer somewhere.)
It's like complaining that using SpeedTest.net to measure your ping and speed to D.C. is cheating the system because really most of the time you're communicating with California. Yeah, well, Speedtest isn't generally used to measure "likely speed in most conditions". It's supposed to measure maximum speed.
Same for benchmark apps.
Maybe more to the point, I'll care more when I actually feel my CPU/GPU performance is a problem. Buying something that's faster than an S4 is a bit like going shopping for a video card and getting the latest top-of-the-line card. You'll spend more money getting something you don't really need.
(And really it's a lot sillier to do this for phones. You might keep your video card for 5 years and grow into it. 5 years from now you'll be on the iPhone 10s and your current iPhone will be lost in a drawer somewhere.)