Why do mobile phones depreciate so much faster than computers? A computer that sold for 9,000 yuan 5 years ago can still be sold for 3,500 yuan now, while the iPhone To 2,000 yuan, why?

Why do mobile phones depreciate so much faster than computers? A computer that sold for 9,000 yuan 5 years ago can still be sold for 3,500 yuan now, while the iphonex at the same price only sells for 1,200 yuan. Tablets also basically depreciate much slower than mobile phones. An iPad that cost 5,000 yuan a few years ago can still be sold now. To 2,000 yuan, why?

I think the most fundamental reason is because of demand. You may feel stuck after buying a mobile phone for one year, and you may stick to it for three years at most, but a computer can be used for more than three or four years, or even five or six years! Because the popular use of computers does not have such high requirements, coupled with the era of mobile Internet and cloud storage, it has actually reduced the burden on computers a lot!

In the past, a large hard drive may be needed to store content, but now 512G is enough, because many Large storage can be stored using mobile hard disks and cloud disks. In the past, high computer configuration may have been required to edit and render videos. Nowadays, mobile phones can edit videos, and a lot of pressure is suddenly shared. There is no need to do so on a computer. Such large software PR and AE can be used for editing (unless professionals or people with high requirements), but ordinary people just rely on to edit and other APPs and the computer version is enough! In the past, there was no way that many people needed to learn PR and AE, but now they don’t have to!

In the early days of the computer field, using a computer may have required a lot of office software to be installed for daily work. Now cloud office has suddenly relieved a lot of pressure!

It can be said that today’s cloud era and smartphone era have reduced the operating pressure on computers a lot! Even playing games requires a very high-end computer and a large graphics card! Nowadays, many young people are playing mobile games. Compared with computers, there are not as many mobile gamers, so there is not that much demand for computer configurations!

​So a computer with similar configurations is almost enough. Unless you are a professional working person who needs to use a computer for a long time to work, then that is a different matter.

As for mobile phones, almost everyone needs a mobile phone now. Mobile phones used to only have the function of making calls, but later they gradually added the functions of playing games, listening to music and watching movies, playing games, ordering food, online shopping, navigation, social chatting and more! The mobile phone also needs to function as a wallet! The most important thing is that mobile APPs are constantly adding functions, which virtually requires mobile phones to have better configurations to carry them!

​ Not only that, the requirements for taking photos and videos on mobile phones are also making mobile phone cameras continue to improve. After the camera is improved, the size of the photos increases, the size of the video also increases, and the storage space is required. Like early computers, mobile phones also need to open many applications, so the running memory needs to be large. Even and Apple are also increasing, but the increase is relatively slow! Mobile games are also getting bigger. From two-dimensional to three-dimensional, and then to online games, they all require larger memory and faster processors!

​ So when we need more and more mobile phone memory, larger and larger camera pixels, and larger and larger processors, the current mobile phones are definitely not enough! Therefore, mobile phones with better configurations need to be released. If high-performance mobile phones appear now, last year's mobile phones will definitely be worthless! So it depreciates quickly! However, the demand for computers itself is not that radical, so computer configurations have not improved much. As a result, the price difference between last year’s computers and this year’s computers will not be too big, so the natural depreciation will not be that big. What do you think about this? Yes, welcome to follow my entrepreneur Li Meng and communicate with me!