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It really should not be though. It is saddening how fixated on "new" the vally mentality is.

• jordache 9y ago
  but you can't argue that a modern smart phone facilitates orders of magnitude more productivity than a Palm Treo running Windows Mobile or Palm OS?
  • isostatic 9y ago
    You can do. On the other hand you have magnitudes more ways to suck time in a non productive manner.
• sangnoir 9y ago
  > It really should not be though. It is saddening how fixated on "new" the vally mentality is. That's not a fair characterization - it is impressive regardless of the industry. I was impressed just the other day reading about Mercedes classic has stock of spares for old cars (not all parts). I would like to think the number of generations of Mercedes cars is comparable with the number of generations of Maps APIs that have been rolled out. Maintaining support for old products takes effort, and is unlikely to be profitable (directly), one is justified in not doing that without fixation on the "new".
  • opencl 9y ago
    Even the usual car parts stores (Autozone, Advance auto, etc.) stock a lot of parts going back at least 30 years. My car is over 20 years old and I'm surprised how many basic parts I've been able to just walk into a store and buy (radiator, alternator, starter, etc). The amount of warehouse space in those stores does not seem that big but they manage to keep a very useful selection of parts spanning several decades. Much more convenient than going to a dealership and paying 3x the price and waiting a week because they don't actually stock the parts anyway.