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.

 

[Gray]

Know what you mean about heat shrink - I've often wanted to put it where it won't go.
Might soon be necessary for you to cut the earplugs wire and fit a new plug.
Though that's not going to be the easiest job - thanks to the type of cable they always use on ear/headphones 🤨.

I hate to see anything get thrown away.
Always like a challenge to prevent things getting binned.
(It's a family joke that I'm attracted to the cage full of electrical items at the council dump. I can't believe what some people chuck).

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

"Old tech outlast new"?

The problem with new things is manufacturers falling over themselves to add more bells, whistles and pointless doobries, then having to cut back on quality to reduce costs. Is the same with cars now and, many other things.