rubken

I may be generalising hopelessly but I had lots of bits of tech stuff in the old days that seemed to last forever. They just didn’t break. You could leave them in the cupboard for years pull them out blow the dust off them and fire them up.

Modern gear just doesn’t seem to last the same way. This may just be the result of pushing the processors harder so that failure rates increase, but I can’t help thinking that bean-counters somewhere have figured out the effect on the bottom line of a well engineered product.

They make more money if consoles (phones/TVs/MP3 players) die after a few years.