The Verge on mobile SoC performance

From their iPad 4 review:

I have no reason to doubt Cook and Schiller when they say the A6X is a better chip, that it puts the iPad’s performance even further ahead of its competition.

From their Nexus 4 review:

[…] Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 Pro clocked to 1.5GHz, which Google says makes this the fastest phone on the planet. I’m not sure that’s an empirical fact […]

All without a single benchmark or other type of objective assessment.