Old tech outlast new?

[Cricketbat70]

I have mentioned on a number of threads that to help me sleep I listen to music at night (Spotify on my phone and one Bluetooth earbud) For the last few nights I have been using a 20+year old Sony NW-S703F atrac music player and a pair of bose triport earphones with insulation tape round the cable near the 3.5mm jack as the outer sheath has split. Last night the battery was showing 1bar. I expected it to die part way through the night. My alarm went off at 6:00 and it was still going strong OK the one battery bar now flashing. The battery in that little device is better than the batteries in my newer Sony MP3 players and I still maintain that sony's atrac format is better than MP3. As for the bose earphones I'm just hoping the cable never splits completely. I have been watching a few pairs of bose soundsport wired earphones on ebay in case it does finslly give up the ghost. I tried do get some heat shrink plastic tube from work to cover that split but the stupid shaped jack on those earphones means you can't get heat shrink tubing onto the cable.
So yeah old tech still going strong. Picture of a NW-S703F with official sony earphones from the Internet.