"remain in production for decades because there is no prospect of a faster, cheaper better product coming along any time soon." The future is already here, jus

"remain in production for decades because there is no prospect of a faster, cheaper better product coming along any time soon." The future is already here, just unevenly distributed in tech. My Dad did parallax "basic stamp" microcontroller dev work in the 90s, maybe 80s, that stuff is old... you can buy a pin compatible form today, admittedly for about twice the cost of a ras-pi. The arduino and pi will eventually wipe out the stamp, but people have been saying that for many years now, of course. As an analog RF EE example, the ne602 chip has been around for decades (oh at least 2 or 3 now) and people today are still shipping new ham radio kits using it, despite its laughable IP3 large signal specs its still "good enough".