> I think a lot of this is actually somewhat misremembering how slow computers used to be
Suffice to say: I wish. I have a decently powerful computer now, but that only happened a few years ago.
> We used to use spinning hard disks, and we were so often waiting for them to open programs.
Indeed, SSDs are much faster than HDDs. That is part (but not all) of how computers have gotten faster. And yet we still wait just as long or longer for common applications to start up.
> the iPhone and iPad actually comes to mind as devices that perform well and are practically always snappy
Terribly written programs are perfectly common on iP* and can certainly be slow. But you're right, having a high-end device does make the bloat much less noticeable.
Suffice to say: I wish. I have a decently powerful computer now, but that only happened a few years ago.
> We used to use spinning hard disks, and we were so often waiting for them to open programs.
Indeed, SSDs are much faster than HDDs. That is part (but not all) of how computers have gotten faster. And yet we still wait just as long or longer for common applications to start up.
> the iPhone and iPad actually comes to mind as devices that perform well and are practically always snappy
Terribly written programs are perfectly common on iP* and can certainly be slow. But you're right, having a high-end device does make the bloat much less noticeable.