Why do smartphone companies use unsuitable chipsets on their phones?

Because they can.

As many of you know, I’m switching to Android in a few months.
I have been looking at midrange Android phones, and I noticed a common trend among them. None of them use the right chipset.

Let’s talk about the Nokia 6.
It’s a well built phone from a manufacturer that has been in the market for a good amount of time. It would’ve been the perfect phone—if it didn’t have a Snapdragon 430. That just destroyed everything.

The 430 is a low end processor that is known to lag considerably.
Sadly, it is one of the most used chipsets on Android smartphones.
People buy them because they aren’t very educated on these chipsets.

I don’t blame them. People like to look at numbers in order to compare their phones. The Snapdragon 430 has 8 cores, and the 820 has 4. According to the knowledge of the average consumer, the 430 is much faster than the 820, right?
Wrong.

The chipset is among the most expensive parts of a phone. Companies like to skimp on them and add in more features like more ram and storage. This is what attracts the customer and he ends up buying a phone with more ram than the chipset will ever need. The phone ends up lagging and the customer thinks that he needs more ram.

The chipset brands make these chipsets and don’t give a shit about educating the customer about them. It’s like giving a Tesla to someone from the 1960’s. They don’t know how to drive it or even charge it. How do you expect them to use it?

All in all, the mid-range phone market is full of scams of phones and I request you to get somewhat educated about them before buying one of them