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I think everything (price, performance, features, # of cores) depends on the segment that the device is being target towards. Most folks would pick a price band and then decide what is the best device they can buy for that price - and not worry about # of cores.

Consumers aren't the ones picking the components, OEMs are.

If I ran a company that built smartphones in this highly competitive market, I would not want my competitors to have an edge on me. People would use my "dual core" phones as a weakness in all marketing/promotional materials.

Why do you think QCOM is now doing the big.LITTLE octa-core nonsense? Do you think the folks at QCOM don't understand the technical inferiority of an 8 core Cortex A7/A53? It's all about what the customers want, and in many regions such as China, there's a real "core war".

In the US it's not so big a deal because every phone aside from the iPhone is powered by Qualcomm