Mid10s vs Late10s - Which was the bigger technological leap

OBVIOUSLY the mid 10s

Smartphones when the mid 10s started

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Smartphones by the time the mid 10s ended:

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Since 2016 smartphones have barely changed, both hardware and software remaind the same

In the mid 10s the software went from Skeomorphic to minimalist

Hardware improved a lot too, and the design of the phones become prettier and more polished

The only addition since then have been slow motion cameras, airpods and fingerprint sensors

The 10s tech advancements slowed down over the years, basically a reverse 90s

We're only now (read: since 2019) started to get out of that slump

AI and Health advancements are booming

Smartphones started being commonplace in 2011 and virtually everyone had them in 2013. 

Also that is not true at all about smartphones not changing since 2016. I remember using my 2019 galaxy a20e for the first time and it felt like a garguantuan leap compared to my previous 2016/2017 phone. For example the charging speed was literally at least 5x faster the screen is much bigger and has no bezels, the screen is the entire display unlike smartphones in the mid 10s. Much faster and can handle seemingly infinite tabs compared to my previous phone. I could go on. 

And alexa speakers were also getting popular in 2019. 

The mid-10s saw a way bigger technological shift, not even close. You go from the early 2010s where digital sales, MP3s and cable TV are still king to the late 2010s where streaming is so dominant that Apple and Disney have to launch their own services to survive in the new landscape.

We go from 2012 the skeuomorphic, pre-smartwatch, pre-drone, pre-4K displays world to 2017 the flat design, OVP apps, 3D printing, vitual assistants world.

The late 10s completely changed the look of smartphones by removing bezzles and home buttons on the front around 2017/2018. Wireless earbuds also blew up in 2018/2019.

mid 2010s smartphones just look like more refined versions of early 2010s smartphones.

>iTunes for instance was still big in 2012 and had declined pretty badly by 2015, meaning mp3s were less and less used as the mid-2010s unfolded.

These were basically dead by the start of the mid 10s so any further decline isn't that important.

>A nothingburger fad that sells millions of units per year and still is growing to this day.

Yet you never see anyone irl with smartwatches. I only recall seeing one in 2015 when everyone thought it would be the next smartphone but nothing happened and people stuck to smartphones for the rest of the decade.

>Ridiculous. Drones were an unmistakable sight in cities by 2016. They were constantly talked about:

Drones were a rarity. They were not an everyday life thing and still aren't. You still have 99.99999% of amazon packages being delivered by humans for example rather than drones. They have not integrated into society yet.


>3D printing is used by tons of industries and private sellers nowadays, and is still expected to grow even more in the next years.
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I wouldn't really say it is mainstream. To this day, no one has it in their homes and only specific departments of schools or workplaces use them. They were considered cutting edge technology back in 2016.

But it was though. Apple Music didn't exist yet in 2013-2014 so iTunes wasn't eaten up by streaming at that point. By 2016 though its fate was sealed.



I see them all the time in the summer. They're harder to notice because people can easily cover them with their sleaves.

And they were never meant as a replacement for smartphones, but a replacement for oldschool watches.


When countries start to use them as a replacement for fireworks. I'd say they're pretty well integrated.





Which is false. Last year they literally had even more buzz because many could mass produce sanitary equipments. They're pretty much mainstream at this point.