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		PUSH_AX 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The world could run on older hardware if software ... Some of it does. The chips in everyones pockets do a lot of compute and are relatively new though.

freddie_mercury 3 months ago [–]

I'd be willing to bet that even a brand new iPhone has a surprising number of reasonably old pieces of hardware for Bluetooth, wifi, gyroscope, accelerometer, etc. Not everything in your phone changes as fast as the CPU.

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