Okay, I'm not rich and $1,000 is a lot of money. But am I the only one who can remember when supposedly cheap PCs and laptops cost just as much, and these were gadgets that didn't even have a fraction of the computational power of even the cheapest iPhones and Samsung phones. Consider the Apple II or the original IBM PC which, even in the less inflated dollars of their time (late 70s to early 80s), already cost over a $1,000! So it seems our definition of cheap deflates while our expectation of what a gadget can do inflates.
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Okay, I'm not rich and $1,000 is a lot of money. But am I the only one who can remember when supposedly cheap PCs and laptops cost just as much, and these were gadgets that didn't even have a fraction of the computational power of even the cheapest iPhones and Samsung phones. Consider the Apple II or the original IBM PC which, even in the less inflated dollars of their time (late 70s to early 80s), already cost over a $1,000! So it seems our definition of cheap deflates while our expectation of what a gadget can do inflates.