Interesting take on comparability vs performance. I gotta imaging capturing user data and sending to a cloud collector is also a big culprit.

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    Went down a bit of a rabbit hole here. Very interesting. Would love to see a Vsauce style video going into various real life examples of this

    Thanks for sharing.

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      Cell phone batteries. Phones used to have shit batteries but they would last 3 days because the software running on it was minimal and the hardware was low power. Batteries have become way better in the last 20 years but phones don’t even last a day because if all the hardware and software running super demanding and inefficient programs.

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        Part of that is just us using our phones more. If I used my smartphone the way I would use an old flip phone, the battery would probably last a few days

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        The biggest contributor is actually screen size. Your phone screen is about 8x larger and 16x higher resolution than an old dumb phone.