[sgerenser]

Reliability of most complicated devices (cars, electronics) is usually thought to follow a “bathtub curve.” Some early mortality due to defective parts or manufacturing defects, a long trough of reliability from say, 1-10 years, then a rapid rise in failures due to aging. “Everything at half life” is a pretty bad approximation of this.

[titoCA321]

Not just electronics, go read the print quality of some of your paper receipts from three years ago and see if you can make heads or tails or where you purchased the item. Ever see photos from photo albums long ago?