Why someone tell iPhone is faster than Android?

It's a matter of comparing two different platforms that have fundamentally different business plans -- Apple's iPhones are made in a tightly curated environment where it has control over what components are used and how they're assembled, along with creating the operating system (iOS). Contrarily, Android phones are created with hardware that consists of a really wide range of quality standards and various manufacturers, with the Open Source Android operating system being developed by Google as a one-off solution. Android OS is the common base, and then the numerous phone carriers add the proprietary 'layers' of Google services plus their own (yuck) customizations.
Going by specific hardware numbers, comparing an iPhone to an Android phone just isn't realistic. Apple can be lazier about always bumping up hardware specs because their phones are simply more efficient in the sense that all the software (OS and drivers) is written specifically for a small selection of components. Android is by design focused on running on a much wider range of components, so internally it needs to include various processes, functionality, and drivers that target a much wider range of phone hardware configurations.
Two different companies, two different development models. Apple is making an obscene amount of money but Android's market share numbers are in the upper 80% (that's world numbers, in America it's closer to the 60 vs 40 range but Android's lead is again still significant) so there's also two different ways of measuring success.

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Why someone tell iPhone is faster than Android?