The early 2010s for mobile devices was a lot like the '90s for PCs, true. The iPhone had blown the doors off everyone's notions of what a phone could do, and the tech was advancing so fast that a cutting-edge device could be obsolete in two years. (On the '90s PC side, I suspect that Doom and the ensuing explosion of 3D games kicked things off.)
Don't mistake that for the default state of computing technology. My daily-use laptop is a 2010 MacBook Pro, and it's only started feeling slow in the last couple of years. Even now, it's fine for light web browsing and gaming.
Don't mistake that for the default state of computing technology. My daily-use laptop is a 2010 MacBook Pro, and it's only started feeling slow in the last couple of years. Even now, it's fine for light web browsing and gaming.