[k310]

Damn stuff won't die. One ipod touch has zero battery capacity. One ipad Air2 grew a bulge,but still runs, so I wiped it for recycling.

Imac screen quit. Needs repair.

Of course stuff gets obsoleted in software conpatibility, but the ipad1 still holds books and music scores, all I asked of it.

I suggest simplifying life. Write! Decent text editors ran on CP/M. YMMV, of course.

Jerry Pournelle used to just plain write but got dragged into hardware and software reviews and wars.

Agree on Apple's low memory entry ststems. At least you can tape an external drive to the case. Not so with menory.

Then again MS is going "subscription everything" and Apple s/w is mostly free. Open source runs great excrpt that GIMP file dialogs do not grab the keyboard. They used to. Ob well.

[soorya3]

Hardware are more reliable and lasts longer. The software makes the hardware less useful over time.

Apple is moving into the subscription everything model slowly if you noticed. You can get new phone every year with Apple Upgrade Program, News+, Fitness+, iCloud+, Apple TV+ etc. Slowly you will be locked into the ecosystem and can't escape it. We might as well call Apple (Google/Amazon to an extent) an utility at this point.