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>There is 0 reason a modern phone couldn’t be used for the rest of your life.

A phone, yes. A 'modern' phone conforming to our 'modern' expectations, no.

It would have to be significantly larger, less performant, and have a worse screen for it to last even ten years.

To make it repairable you'd have to make sure individual chips and capacitors are swappable, which costs ~2x power draw compared to a SOC.




>less performant

Only because the code we write is crappier




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