[Gigachad]

Tbh I'd expect the trend of upgrading phones to start to slow down as well as they become "good enough" but there are still pretty big gains being made in cameras.

Laptops are just good enough now. If you took the 3 year old M1 internals, and stuck them in the new case and told me it was the 2024 model, I'd not notice anything was off.

[barbariangrunge]

Phones are locked down. All you need is a vendor to refuse further software updates after 5 years, after releasing a more resource-draining updates prior to this, and it doesn’t matter how good the old hardware is. People won’t be able to use it