iPhone > Apollo Guidance Computer

I am fascinated by the fact that any iPhone starting from the first one, has much more power than Apollo Guidance Computer that helped get astronauts to the Moon.

Apollo Guidance Computer in 1969 had Clock speed of about 1.024 MHz, 2 KB of RAM and 32 KB of storage.

And it’s kind of funny that we mostly use our (extremely powerful) mobile gadgets for consuming content, not for creating.

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