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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They actually have something that you might call a moving part: software. Software is moved around quite a lot and needs to be processed. That software tends to grow and become more complex because of updates and user data.
If you do a factory reset and do not allow any updates on your old phone, it will as fast as day one.
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