I leave an ancient tomtom (which had lifetime map updates that stopped after ~10 years when they said the HW wasn't supported anymore) in the glove box of my tr

I leave an ancient tomtom (which had lifetime map updates that stopped after ~10 years when they said the HW wasn't supported anymore) in the glove box of my truck when i'm traveling the back roads of the USA, where cellphone coverage doesn't exist and google doesn't know the difference between a fire road, and a rancher's driveway. Its self contained and more than once I've fired it up when google was non responsive or tried to route me through a farmer's pasture with a locked gate or through an unmaintained fire road. So self contained is definitely a strength, and I suspect that old tomtom will still be tossing out routes in 10-15 years when we all have 7G cell modems in our cars leaving all the 4G/5G ones disconnected as has been happening with the 2G ones from 10 years ago. But the other end of the problem here is that these systems simply aren't designed properly anymore. Hence the reliance on cell modems, updates, etc. 22 years ago the two primary Linux Architectures in use today didn't even exist (amd64 and aarch64). Will the linux of 2040 even run on anything we have available today? Will the reactjs of 2040 fit in the puny 8G of RAM (or whatever) a modern car/linux machine might ship with? I would say no, nothing seems to be turning the less efficient software boat, as we steadily head down into ever more layers of software abstraction using ever more inefficient technologies. Anyway, my point is that the phone upgrade is basically required to run the lastest google/apple maps because that is the treadmill we are on. If you stop upgrading eventually you get dropped. I tried booting an ipad2 a couple years back, and while it booted, it had stopped getting OS updates, and the first thing it did was basically wipe out pretty much every single app, or in some cases leave them there in various dysfunctional states. I might have been able to repurpose it as a ebook reader if I was willing to crack the DRM/etc on them and load them manually.. Other than that, paperweight. PS: Delorme Atlases are the real answer to shady GPS routing, I keep them in the glove box too :)