eli5: If modern computers and smartphones etc have no moving parts, then what causes their performance to steadily deteriorate as they age?
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Software and hardware advancement. As time gone by, more powerful hardware appear, the software also adjust and optimize for this new hardware, and older hardware got left in the dust.
This become less and less noticeable nowadays since the hardware right now, even mid and entry range is more than capable of handling things thrown at them for a few year.
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