Tell me one thing you do with a $600 computer that fits in your pocket that you cant do with a $200 computer that fits in your pocket.
Play Bad Piggies.
I swear to god the phone is about to melt down when this thing is done. It must be working every CPU and GPU at 101%.
Hmm. Only the $600 computer has the feature that I feel better that I am not contributing toward a race to the bottom in computer design.
That is very nice of you.
I try to buy things that I actually need and use, so to me the $600 pocket fitting computer is still pretty ridiculous.
They can't be made for less so if the value isn't there for you, stay out of that market (I never have or will bought a 3D TV for this reason). Buy your "dumb phone" and be happy.
Run the auto-updated version of an app, that uses twice the RAM to do the same work the previous version did.
This x100. Thought it was just me. Over 6 month period of time my phone went from snappy to laggy, with really no new apps installed - just updates.
It of course depends on a lot of factors, but a number of Android devices have performance degradation over time, so it can't always be blamed on app upgrades. See for example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grilledmon... and googling whatever specific device you have for the thousands of other people with the same problem.