[1970-01-01]

Yes. That upgrade narrative worked a for quite a long time as things were evolving, but these days we're at a hot garbage consumerism stage. And we know it.

Apple: Wow yet another new iPhone! How do we do it? Apple Intelligence!! Are you buying 2 or 3 today?!

Consumer: None for me, thanks.

[OhMeadhbh]

Not saying that you're doing this, but isn't this the same as saying "it's okay for the nuclear launch systems to use 8" floppy drives."

It's perfectly okay if you are. And if you aren't then there's some place between "it's okay for missiles to use Series/1s from the 1970s" and "it's okay for people to use a 2 year old phone." Might be interesting to figure out where that point is.

For what it's worth, I think it's perfectly fine for US Nuclear Missiles to use IBM Series/1s, even with Floppy Drives. I had this wonderful idea that somewhere in the mountains was an old guy hand-winding copper wires around an iron core to manually make a read/write head for a floppy drive to sell to Raytheon to sell to the DoD to replace worn out IBM floppies from the 70s.