There's a bit of truth to this for sure but the usable life of a desktop PC was and still is much longer than that of a smartphone. A desktop PC can get a memor

There's a bit of truth to this for sure but the usable life of a desktop PC was and still is much longer than that of a smartphone. A desktop PC can get a memory upgrade, a new hard drive, maybe a new graphics card, in five years it wouldn't be top of the line anymore but it'd still be something that you could put in your kid's room to hack on. In 8-10 years it might get donated to a local school. Think of that happening with a smartphone. Or even a Chromebook - Google has a 5 year end of life policy!