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You say "recently" and then compare computers from 18 and 25 years ago. That's just about a generation in human years. The comment I replied to said, "For what it's worth, PCs are subject to the exact same slow decline". ARE subject, not WILL BE or USED TO BE.

"Mobile devices will catch up and stagnate too, sadly."

Uh, if they catch up to my point, then they will still be useful at 5 - 7 years, thus the opposite of stagnant.



I almost typed up the comment that you responded to, probably for the reason that 2000 is still "recent" in my mind :/


>Uh, if they catch up to my point, then they will still be useful at 5 - 7 years, thus the opposite of stagnant.

I believe the GP meant that the rapid progress of feature improvement will stagnate, which means older devices won't 'age' as quickly.




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