Don’t feel bad, this is what Chris Anderson calls the “peace dividend of the smartphone wars” and we all benefit.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/29/epiphanies_from_chris_anderson
All the components in a smartphone — the sensors, the GPS, the camera, the ARM core processors, the wireless, the memory, the battery — all that stuff, which is being driven by the incredible economies of scale and innovation machines at Apple, Google, and others, is available for a few dollars. They were essentially “unobtainium” 10 years ago. This is stuff that used to be military industrial technology; you can buy it at RadioShack now.
