Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by hglman 3928 days ago
My guess is its that smart phones are more valuable than the raw materials, or more valuable than a tv, a land line phone, and a hand radio are individually. So not that there are more, that they are more valuable objects.
1 comments

To some degree, yes.

Still, there were cell phones in the 90s. Are the current smartphones that much more valuable than those early mobiles? Remember we are talking about 2 orders of magnitude here.

There were also PCs, and with Word Perfect and Lotus 123 you could do almost everything you do today with the latest office suite. At least almost everything of what the average user knows how to do.