I like to frame it this way: The oldest TV in my house is a 10+ years old 46" 'dumb' TV. It used to have a SageTV box connected, then a Roku, and now currently

I like to frame it this way: The oldest TV in my house is a 10+ years old 46" 'dumb' TV. It used to have a SageTV box connected, then a Roku, and now currently has a Chromecast. I could plug the Chromecast into a brand new TV, and other than the case design, they'd be indistinguishable. Know what was state-of-the-art in embedded CPUs 10 years ago? The original iPhone. It had a 400 MHz single-core processor with 128MB RAM. Do you think app developers that have quad- and octo-core CPUs and literally 8 or 16 times the memory are going to optimize for the old platform, or build and maintain several versions of their applications? Personally I'd rather spend of $35 ~ $200 every few years, instead of $800 ~ $2000, to have an up-to-date system.