IMO battery age is still part of the discussion when talking about the shiny new model. If I buy a Series 7, two years from now it's going to be two years old.

IMO battery age is still part of the discussion when talking about the shiny new model. If I buy a Series 7, two years from now it's going to be two years old. That seems obvious but people seem to gloss right over it. When the AirPods first came out there were a lot of reviews saying "Battery life is about 5 hours, this is just barely acceptable but it's not a problem." And then two years later the same authors were writing articles complaining that their AirPod battery life has gotten unacceptably short as if they'd never owned anything with a non-removable battery before and had no idea it was going to happen.