Friends who often assemble their own computers have discovered a problem. In the second-hand market, mobile phones depreciate much faster than computer accessories. A graphics card may be sold for 3,299 yuan, and the price may rise a lot after a while, unless a new model is released, but even if a new model is released, the price of the graphics card will not drop much, and mobile phones will see a very obvious price reduction after a while. Why is this? The
flagship chip only has a "flagship life" of one year, becomes a "sub-flagship" in the second year, and becomes a "magic U" in the third year. Apple is even more wasteful. Once the A15 comes out, A14 is basically useless. Only the basic model of iPad uses the A13 from two years ago. There is a problem with the 888 on the Qualcomm side, and then the 888+ is released. It is estimated that no one will use the 888 after a year.
Smartphones only emerged after 10 years, and it only took ten years from system to hardware. In these ten years, there have been great improvements every year, from processors to memory to screens to cameras, and these cannot be replaced individually. Computers have been developing for so many years, and they are basically being upgraded like toothpaste. There is no problem in buying a computer and using it for three to five years.
It would be better to say that mobile phone software is becoming more and more bloated. Computer software has always been like this. As long as you can’t keep up with the bloat caused by software updates, you will be unhappy with your mobile phone. Computers are now 12 generations and 7 generations i7 and there is still no problem. 3090ti is 58% better than 2080ti, and 12900ks is 71% better than 11900k. There is a gap between the 11th and 12th generations of Intel, and two years have passed between the two generations of N Card. This progress is much faster than that of graphics cards, and it is much better than the improvement of mobile phones.
If a mobile phone cannot be assembled and upgraded, it is destined to depreciate quickly. To a greater extent, it is caused by the essential difference between "communication tools" and "productivity tools".
