Well duh. It's not like Apple purposely made the 32gb slower. That's an inherent hardware limitation (not just on iPhone)

It's only the write speed anyways, so unless you spend all day transferring/downloading large amounts of data to your phone, it's totally misleading to say the entire experience is 9 times slower. During regular usage there should be no noticeable difference.

It's so weird how this is now just becoming a story. Wouldn't all previous iPhones or different storage capacities be like this?

All of the iPhones use USB 2.0 anyway so it's like not like you're losing out on transfer rate.

I've read that comparable capacity Android phones have faster transfer rates so maybe they're using a better memory chip. Still not something to hold against the iPhone though. It's real world implications are minor as it doesn't affect daily use

Android's usually write mostly to SD cards. I know with my Samsung, as soon I placed my SD Card it, it became primary over my internal storage.