Cost of iPhone X in 1957

Re:Cost of iPhone X in 1957 by csours on Friday September 15, 2017 @11:59PM (#15262781)

Things that haven't improved exponentially since 1957:

Batteries

Cars

Houses

People

Dishwashers

TVs

Things that have improved exponentially since 1957:

Disk drives

Integrated Circuits

RAM

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Re:Cost of iPhone X in 1957 by desertrider on Saturday September 16, 2017 @01:22AM (#15263045)

I would say TVs have. Color, size, brightness, efficiency and resolution are all orders of magnitude higher.

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Re:Cost of iPhone X in 1957 by csours on Saturday September 16, 2017 @01:27AM (#15263062)

They're better, but only in a linear way, not exponentially.

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Re:Cost of iPhone X in 1957 by dredmorbius on Saturday September 16, 2017 @02:36AM (#15263270)

What's your unit of measurement?

How about data bitrate? Total number of available channels?

Even goosing those, you're not looking at exponential rates of increase.

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