Anand Lai Shimpi and Brian Klug trace the tricks used by electronics giants to bamboozle benchmarking apps–a practice widely associated with Samsung, but also used by at least some of its competitors. At The Observer, Charles Arthur suggests that it's time to stop trusting benchmarking apps altogether.
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