@ed709062 also, remember Exynos? The bane of EU Samsung flagships, for the last few years always lagging behind Qualcomm even when both were using same core designs from ARM and same manufacturing process from... Samsung? To the point they pulled them back from their home market and ultimately from their flagships entirely?

And it's not like Samsung is incompetent - Exynos is the direct descendant of (actually retroactively renamed to Exynos) Hummingbird SoCs which powered early Galaxy S phones and... iPhone 4 and everything else apple made with A4 chips. And the version for Galaxy phones was better than what Apple put in their phones! They just didn't manage to keep up that momentum.

Qualcomm has for a long time managed to stay second to Apple when it came to mobile SoC designs, despite making many more designs (Apple was only really concerned with high-end mobile chips until they also started making high-end desktop chips) and fundamentally being much closer to the rest of the competition than Apple (using the same ARM core designs as them).

If even being second-best makes you a clown I think we'll need a bigger circus considering the increasing competition in that market.

Unless somehow Discourse works better on MediaTek Dimensity, Samsung Exynos, HiSilicon Kirin, Unisoc or JLQ SoCs I don't think it's fair to blame Qualcomm for anything here.