Because most of the complexity of smartphones is hidden from the user. Meanwhile in the 80s, you had to know some command line just to run a game. If you wante

Because most of the complexity of smartphones is hidden from the user. Meanwhile in the 80s, you had to know some command line just to run a game. If you wanted free games, you had to hand copy the code from a book. Once you learned a little bit, you were either content and kept playing the games or you wanted to learn more about how the game and the computer works. We don't have that same barrier to entry now. That's good and bad, but that's part of why computers and smartphones are so ubiquitous now.