[michaelt]

> There is no indication that this statement holds true. Not even remotely.

Well, over 30 years I'd bet on S3 over blu-ray or magnetic tape at the very least :)

For one thing, S3 itself is already 16 years old - and Ceph, B2, GCS and Azure all offer extremely similar products, indicating there's solid demand for this product.

Second, it's not clear to me that 'tech half-life continues to decrease' - granted, there's huge churn in javascript web frameworks, but for PCs and laptops? Very little has changed in the last 5 years.

And thirdly, some technologies stay around for absolutely ages. Right now, you can buy a brand new data projector with a 15-pin analog VGA port - and a motherboard with a VGA output. You can get a motherboard for a 64-core ThreadRipper processor... which has a PS/2 connector.