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1vuio0pswjnm7 on Jan 18, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon

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."

ladyanita22 on Jan 18, 2021 [–]

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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