Demon-Haunted World
Why do our phones, which certainly felt damn snappy the day we bought them, inevitablely seem to slow down to the point of unusability after a couple dozen months? Even after a factory reset and installing no apps at all... I know it didn&#x27;t take that long to open&#x2F;close the built in apps when I bought that iPhone 4, 5, 5s...<p>The only thing I can think of is the flash drive is slowing down as it wears. Or, the CPU clock rate is programmed to progressively lower itself the longer it runs.<p>Has anyone done the performance analysis on used phones to prove this isn&#x27;t just my brain moving the goalposts as hardware improves, or apps just slowing down as they bloat, but that the old devices really and truly are running the same software significantly slower than when they were new?