[Moto X General] BrokenWall:
So first off I will go over a few things about Consumers. Consumers are sheep, they follow what is popular or what they know!

I will go back and look at the old LCD Monitors for a second. When you use to buy a 23" or 24" you use to get 1920x1200 which is 16:10 ratio and gave that computer work a bit more area. Well companies started coming out with the FHD 1080P displays that were using cheaper panels. They sold so much better because of the know 1080P buzz word and the cheapness, no one cared that they were worst displays. Now its hard to find a 1920x1200 monitor for your PC (without spending a fortune). While there are still some options available, the consumers drove the market to have 1080P displays.

Now onward a bit, I was in BestBuy just over a year ago waiting in line to get the LG Optimus G, when it came out it was priced at basically $99, while the less powerful Galaxy S3 was priced at $199. I stood in line and took the time to talk to a few people, and they were all basically getting Galaxy S3s, and when I asked why they replied with "It's the Galaxy man!". One of them asked me what I was going to get. I replied with the Optimus G, he didn't understand why. I showed him all the information, and even pulled up proof of how much better the phone performs because of its less intrusive Manufacture Skin, and I said not that specs matter, but its half the price and has better hardware. He ended up getting a Galaxy S3 because of how its the phone to have if you don't get an iPhone.

Your average person doesn't care about the fact that when they pull down their notification bar there is over half the screen taken up by quick toggles or static WIFI warning. They don't care that everywhere you look there is some Samsung or HTC craziness that either gets in the way or tries to assist you. It is sad to say that there are alot of people who believe Android is what Samsung makes it. I have had people say they love Android because it does this and that, and the features they mentioned were things that Samsung or HTC have added to make themselves stand out.

The reason I got the Moto X is because its almost pure Android, we all say we want Pure Android, but AOKP/CM/PA/etc are not true pure Android. They all take the Source code and add to it or change it in a way to provide a pure experience with more features. What we really want is to just want the ability to make the phone ours in a way. Back to the topic the Moto X just takes that original Android experience and doesn't add a skin, but adds features that I can actually use, Touchless Control doesn't get used much but it is awesome when driving. The Active Display works wonders on my desk at work, or when I am running around the office. These are features that stand out and added to the phone.

The Moto X how many features that are added on:

-Active Display

-Touchless Control

-Shake to Camera

I know the Galaxy S4 includes a big list of Galaxy Apps and a few features that feel like they were just added to say, hey we can do this. How often do you think video pause feature comes in handy? plus it doesn't work when using something like MX Player to allow you to watch a video with a different codec. How about being able to swipe your hand over the display without touching it, its a phone not a Kinect.

Onto the Dual Core thing, I will link to an iPhone 5s article by Anandtech (here) the reason for this is because he goes into using cross platform benches and it shows how in some tests our Moto X is out performing even Snapdragon 800 CPUs. The reason for this is while we have a Dual core, our phones are able to still be more efficient with those two cores because of how they will ramp up to faster speeds, while other phones try to even the load, just putting it out there in simple terms. I can tell you that even though we have an S4 Dual, my Moto X is so much more snappier than the S4 Pro in my Optimus G, also they comes down to the fact that the Moto X is using F2FS for the data and user partitions which alone are making a huge IO gain!

Think about when Quad Core CPUs were becoming mainstream, in many aspects it was still better to have a DualCore cpu at faster speeds due to the ability it would properly be handled. I am no Android Developer but I believe that the rush to Quad and now Octo Core CPUs in our phone have outpaced the development of the OS and Applications, there is still alot of work that can be done to improve the phones performance and battery life, the answer isn't to throw cores and memory at it.