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I wouldn't really say Moto Z cheats so much as that Google designed the entire software ecosystem of Android without ever talking to a hardware engineer.

They simply do not care about optimizing the performance of the phone running their software. Otherwise they never would have chosen a garbage-collected language like Java for the platform in the first place (I understand they've ameliorated this concern recently). Or used ext4 like here.

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> I wouldn't really say Moto Z cheats so much as that Google designed the entire software ecosystem of Android without ever talking to a hardware engineer

Not sure if you're being serious or hyperbolic - but Google bought Android, Inc (an Andy Rubin startup). The team had a lot of Danger alumni - Danger being the makers of the HipTop - aka the original T-Mobile Sidekick (also running Java). I'm certain they knew a thing or two about hardware, they just made trade-offs you disagree with.

or developer had to build separate app for x86, armv7, armv5, armv6, armv8, mips,...

Really just arm* until the last couple of years. These choices were made forever ago.

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