It’s been somewhat fascinating to me to see how tech companies have managed to continue that over the years. It was always inevitable that phones were going to plateau in power increases the same way that PCs did back in the 2000s. Since then most people have been content keeping their computer for 6 to 10 years, but the same has not been true for phones. Somehow, through software trickery and planned obsolescence tech companies have managed to convince people that their phones are worthless at two years old. It makes me a little worried for our ARM based computing future though, I definitely see at least one section of the tech community that really really wants the future of PCs to look a lot like phones and tablets do now.
To be fair you can easily upgrade (not so much now thanks to AI fuckery) a PC whereas even battery replacement on a phone is not intended to be easy for a consumer.
It’s been somewhat fascinating to me to see how tech companies have managed to continue that over the years. It was always inevitable that phones were going to plateau in power increases the same way that PCs did back in the 2000s. Since then most people have been content keeping their computer for 6 to 10 years, but the same has not been true for phones. Somehow, through software trickery and planned obsolescence tech companies have managed to convince people that their phones are worthless at two years old. It makes me a little worried for our ARM based computing future though, I definitely see at least one section of the tech community that really really wants the future of PCs to look a lot like phones and tablets do now.
To be fair you can easily upgrade (not so much now thanks to AI fuckery) a PC whereas even battery replacement on a phone is not intended to be easy for a consumer.
That’s what has me worried. A lot of the machines coming out now, especially the RISC powered ones, have no user replaceable parts.