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  "description": "This week, Google posted that Chrome on Android was now notably faster at browsing the web than Safari on iOS. This led to the bold line in the post:\n\nAndroid is now the fastest mobile platform for web browsing.\n\nLikely due to corporate lameness, they didn't put specific labels on their bar chart, they just identified that 3 Android OEMs have devices that performed better on the Speedometer 3.1 benchmark than some \"competing mobile phone platform\". Here's their chart for posterity:\n\nA bar chart ",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-27T00:38:05.000Z",
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  "textContent": "This week, Google posted that Chrome on Android was now notably faster at browsing the web than Safari on iOS. This led to the bold line in the post:\n\n> **Android is now the fastest mobile platform for web browsing.**\n\nLikely due to corporate lameness, they didn't put specific labels on their bar chart, they just identified that 3 Android OEMs have devices that performed better on the Speedometer 3.1 benchmark than some \"competing mobile phone platform\". Here's their chart for posterity:\n\nA bar chart without proper labels is going to raise some eyebrows, including John Gruber's, who posted:\n\n> Name the devices or shut up.\n\nI happen to be someone who has the fastest iPhone and the fastest Android phone from the most popular Android maker in the US: the iPhone 17 Pro and Galaxy S26 Ultra.\n\nI guess today is a day of benchmarks for me, because I literally just posted a bunch of benchmarks, including GeekBench scores which showed the Galaxy matching the iPhone in single-core, and beating it in multi-core.\n\nBut yeah, I get the same results as Google did, although the iPhone scored a bit lower on my device for some reason (this is the average score across 5 tests on each device with a short cool down between runs).\n\nHere are the individual results if you wanted to see them all.\n\nIt's been a while of iPhone speed dominance, but it seems Qualcomm has more than caught up in raw performance. iPhones obviously are still outstanding, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are plenty of ways that Apple's chips are great that can't be shown easily on benchmarks like this. As I keep saying, maybe it's time Apple fans stop obsessing over benchmarks like they're Windows fans in the 2000s. Benchmark wins are a nice bonus if your platform is on top, but it's probably not the actual reason you use that platform.",
  "title": "About those \"Chrome on Android is faster than Safari on the iPhone\" claims",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-27T00:42:21.715Z"
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