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>>alphab+(OP)
This is a meta comment, but I think it's extraordinary that we're only 15ish years from the first smartphone release and we've already reached the "boring" incremental improvement phase for these tiny pocket supercomputers.

Consider how long it took PCs to reach the same stage (with a fraction of the adoption). It was like 20 years from Kenbak-1 to the 90s PC era.

>>grepLe+x61
> It's extraordinary that we're only 15ish years from the first smartphone release and we've already reached the "boring" incremental improvement phase for these tiny pocket supercomputers.

I think people are not yet ready to accept the exact same thing is about to happen to cars. Some company will have a perfectly usable electric self-driving vehicle and will produce tens of millions of them a year. They will be an appliance, like your toaster, and nobody will care anymore.

I'm sure it will happen to other things in our lives too.

>>grecy+hl1
People have been saying self driving cars are just around the corner for a decade or so now.

I do believe the future you outline will happen but IMO the timeline is very far from clear. Significant challenges remain for self driving cars.