I wish I could agree! Modern electronic gizmos last as long as the underlying software is supported by the manufacturer. The bits are the first part that wear

I wish I could agree! Modern electronic gizmos last as long as the underlying software is supported by the manufacturer. The bits are the first part that wear out, unless supplied by Apple. Having spent some time in southeast Asia, I can assure you that if you break the screen on your iPhone 5, someone can put a new one in for you. Good luck finding a sceen replacement for any contemporary phone: not that you would be carrying it, since the version of Android it would be running would be so out of date and insecure that the parasitic malware would render it unusable.