A big part of the success of Microsoft was that every year, the chips our software ran on got faster and cheaper. They doubled in capability every 18 months under Moore's law.
In the U.S., PC-makers have no incentive to lower prices because it kills their profit margins. They keep adding new features like high-end retina displays and faster processors to justify their high prices.
I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.
Computers get better faster than anything else ever.
Computer power grows according to Moore's law, as does the sophistication of handheld devices.
If it weren't for Moore's law changing the playing field continuously, I would have been long gone. The rapid pace of hardware evolution still keeps things fresh for me.
To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas and that they're trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore's Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks!
Computers double their performance every month.
No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.
People tend to look at processing power as how to gauge a piece of hardware is powerful for us.
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
At some point, Moore's law will break down.
