The problem with this is Tahoe.

Is this David Mitchell the UK comedian?

Looks like a different one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mitchell_(author)

David Mitchell the author of Cloud Atlas.

Even though I knew it was the author I read this article in the comedians voice :)

I can't help but wonder how the two feel about each other; both being big names in their own field. Both enjoyable in their own right too.

It does sound a bit like something he might have written.

Cloud Atlas stands firmly on its own, I should re-read it at some point. The movie (also a one of a kind, it staying reasonably close to the source material and being one of the most expensive independent movies ever) keeps popping up on Netflix too.

No: the author of Cloud Atlas etc.

Its a combination of that and Apple's A10 chip being significantly faster than the top Qualcom chips at single thread: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-7-benchmark-results,news-...

The A10 doesn't come into this, it just makes it even faster. An iPhone 6 is substantially faster in the graph shown than any current Android phone.