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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
The real PC revolution was when manufacturers were able to come out with a machine every two years that was much better than what they made two years ago. Machines like the Apple ][ and Atari 2600 lasted a lot longer than their makers thought because upgrading meant replacing all your software until the PC AT clones came around.