Every now and again I break out some old hardware and software. For old times’ sake.
Well designed hardware lasts. Well designed software should too, but no software is an island, and therefore things break, often much too soon.
Well designed software, though, running on well designed standards runs years after its first release.
And just like good hardware wears well, old good software seems anachronistic but beautiful.
So. In 2020, here are Evernote, Gmail and Telegram running like new on iOS 6, released in 2012, running on an iPhone 4, released in 2010.
