The only dependency of the original Furby was AA batteries. If you find one in a drawer, you can clean out the battery compartment, pop in new cells, and you're

The only dependency of the original Furby was AA batteries. If you find one in a drawer, you can clean out the battery compartment, pop in new cells, and you're probably good to go. Meanwhile smartphones have enabled this trend writ large with devices now entirely dependent on surveillance-laden someone-else's-computer-connected throwaway apps that are only meant to work long enough to churn to the next product revision.