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by TazeTSchnitzel 961 days ago
> The changes seen by smartphones (both hardware and software) in that period of time are much more dramatic than PCs saw in the same period.

They certainly got a lot more powerful, but the fundamental software architecture hasn't radically changed. An iPhone OS app from 2008 can be recompiled for 2023's iOS and will still work. iPhone OS inherited its whole architecture from OS X, which gave it room to grow into more powerful devices without radical changes. Pre-iPhone smartphones were a different beast.