Samsung - where performance matters

[Grieve]

Benchmark apps want to know what the maximum speed the hardware can handle is. They whitelist them so that they can see.

That would only be valid if ALL phones whitelisted the apps. Then you'd have apples to apples (no pun intended!).
Benchmarks are, by implication, a way to compare one bit of hardware to another , whether it's a video card, a hard drive, a phone, or whatever. If not everyone is playing by the same rules, it's useless as a point of comparison.

And yes, 95% of consumers probably don't care, but quite a few people do, as shown by the fact there are are already 1000s of comments on the various stories on this around the web.