We got it. I get it. But we can't always make it work. It is time for a new solution. The computer industry itself stands in the way.
All industries have a problem of ensuring a continual revenue stream from their customers.
In the computer industry, the answer is to convince users that whatever hardware and software they are now perfectly happy with is, in actuality, unsatisfactory. This is done through the introduction of new features. The strange thing is that this strategy appears to work. Every six months, the hardware side of the computer industry comes out with new models, each better and faster, with more capacity and lower cost than the previous model. Every year, the software industry comes out with new products and new versions of existing products, each with brilliant new features that are essential for the health, safety, and well-being of the planet.