The problem is that phone makers will keep more and more compute-hungry software. For example, when you take a picture on a modern phone, it takes several pictu

The problem is that phone makers will keep more and more compute-hungry software. For example, when you take a picture on a modern phone, it takes several pictures across time and with different exposures etc. and measures gyro/acc data and I don't even know what else. And then this is all combined to make an approximation of reality. If you don't buy the latest and greatest every 3-4 years, your camera will keep getting more and more outdated because all this fancy stuff won't run without 32 cores and 256 tensors and 10 GPUs or whatever.