Lets do a fact check on this, that time span is the iphone X to iphone 14 Pro. Taking one metric, the geekbench score has gone from 2156 to 5383. So in that time phones have become more twice as fast. It released with ios 11, I wont even bother to list all the major improvements between 11 and 16 because it's a huge list.
There is so much more to expand on this but when even the most obvious stats show dramatic improvement, there isn't any point detailing the differences in camera, connectivity, features, etc.
Even at that, if you want to simply do 'novel innovation' in things that are truly new or change your process...you can get phones with folding screens these days, that's pretty cool and wild to think about.
Yes the jump from 240p to 4K is enjoyable, but Marvel movies in 4k are still vacuous compared to something with meaning in 720p.
What do you see as a genuine new feature?
The fact we can even see quantifiable change in our lifetimes is completely new and limited to the last 200 or so years.
And nowadays we can see significant change from decade to decade.
It’s like looking in a mirror. You see it everyday so of course it doesn’t seem like anything’s changing. You need to look at the bigger context and look at the forest instead of trees. Try Hans Roslings 200 years in 2 minutes talk.
I sometimes end the day with 50% or more left on my phone battery. That didn't happen before my last upgrade.
10GbE is finally starting to filter down to consumer-level things.
Cloud stuff is starting to have Arm systems as a standard offering.
I can run an SSD as my only disk, rather than as an expensive small cache in front of a platter drive.
Risc-5 seems to be really starting to become a thing, even if it's hasn't fully just yet.
Of course everything's a good bit faster, but that's kind of a given.
I had always thought it was George Carlin, but maybe this was actually penned by a pastor in the 90s?
"The paradox of our time"
(first paragraph) " We have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways but narrower viewpoints; we spend more but have less; we buy more but enjoy it less; we have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, yet less time; we have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge but less judgement; more experts, yet more problems; we have more gadgets but less satisfaction; more medicine, yet less wellness; we take more vitamins but see fewer results. We drink too much; smoke too much; spend too recklessly; laugh too little; drive too fast; get too angry quickly; stay up too late; get up too tired; read too seldom; watch TV too much and pray too seldom."
[1]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-paradox-of-our-time/
- Taller buildings, shorter tempers: Yes, unclear (I think the average person today gets in fewer physical fights)
- Wider freeways, narrower viewpoints: Yes, unclear (I think in many ways we were even more narrow-minded 20 years ago. Do you remember the "Nuke Iraq" mentality?)
- We buy more but enjoy it less: Unclear, unclear
- we have bigger houses and smaller families: Yes, Yes
- more conveniences, yet less time: Yes, Unclear
gosh there's a lot of these.
You can use an app on your pocket-supercomputer to get a less-than-minimum-wage "independant contractor"/slave to bring you junk food at 10:00pm ? Sure, "Innovation". Is it "progress" ? Does it improve your life ?