Hardware industry maturity as a new era of innovation
Then I had a thought, why don't we have hardware that is meant to last and not change all the time. Aren't there two sides to the coin of innovation?
We never build a perfect driver for one device, there are no startups that compete for the best utilization.
Not to mention all the wasted resources.
Some Mercedes from the 80's have been driven for millions of miles in third world countries, right before they had all the electronics that are often not repairable. I've also read about a moped from some Italian factory that is basically unchanged since the 80's and still sells well.
I still use my iPhone 6s with a replaced battery. It's perfect and was a great deal in retrospect. I will use it until it breaks.
Hardware innovation is slowing, wouldn't it be time for a phone company to build one now and say: "This will run and serviced for 15 years".
Imagine what startups could build on that platform. Also you could build perfect rust drivers for the last few percent of performance which are not obsolete anytime soon.
Also with open source hardware, the producers would compete on price and quality.
Is this still way off in the future? Are there already examples of this?
I mean Intel has problems getting to 7nm and Apple seems to focus more on Software recently (they ran out of ideas). There has to be a limit where it's just not economical any longer.