[Boatanchors] Why modern gadgets vacuum your wallet when...

[Rob Atkinson]

It's fine for me if a manufacturer wants to introduce say, a new model
automobile every year and if some folks are suckers and pee away their
money on a new car every 3 years or so that's their business and I can
and do "opt out" of that game.  What's changed now is that with
software, consumers are being forced to buy new in ever shortening
cycles whether they want to or not.  Right now it's mostly with IT
stuff, but I see this forced purchase method via software gradually
getting into more products.  It already chaps my ass that I have to
buy a new computer every 8 or 9 years in order to keep using resources
like eBay etc.  You may someday quit seeing me on the Internet because
I'll just refuse to keep junking perfectly good computers to stay
on-line.

73

Rob
K5UJ