Re: Love the gadgets but...
Also, don't forget that interface bloat expands to fill the available processor cycles.
Most phones need supercomputing powers these days, just to handle the pointless parallaxes, blurs and transitions used when swiping around the interface.
And then of course there's the processing power needed to handle the equally pointless ultra high definition video and tens of megapixels photographs, coming in through that pinhole sized toy plastic camera lens.