Hear Hear. I used to develop software for hi-tech watches and I think the lessons hold true for most battery powered devices. For us, the struggle was not to have a fast processor but low idle power consumption and how often could be keep the processor idle. Anything above 1% average CPU consumption was considered bad. So yes, snapdragon may have a faster clock speed than A8 but what would be more important to us is how efficient is the pipeline and power consumption, though of course thanks to Intel, most device manufacturers would push frequency over efficiency (easier to use one number than explaining the detail)