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Re:Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @09:02PM (#25817373)
Sort the opposite effect with software. Something like "In ~1997, some of the largest desktop software applications would have been only a fraction of the size of today's smartphone apps."
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Re:Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon by ladyanita22 on Monday January 18, 2021 @05:48PM (#25827663)
I was thinking of the MS Office Android app. You can get it running on a $50 tablet. How powerful would it be vs let's say Office '97 on a Windows 95 PC purchased for around $2000 25 years ago?
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