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So, you've met her. :D To be fair, we are getting into the habit of repairing old equipment, rather than replacing it, eg. electrical brushes on 10 year-old washing machine and glass jug on 7 (?) year-old coffee maker.

Different gadget, but totally different approach to support and longevity... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/08/fairphone-5-review-could-this-be-the-first-phone-to-last-10-years (Almost) wish I hadn't switched to Apple last year.

Rather than my good lady being wrong, I suspect I wasn't listening properly! She's always one for having the latest tech, so it may well be 6 years old, or it may be the Series 4. Not sure when support expires for that. But she also mentions that it now doesn't reliably record her "standing"...

Yeah, my wife has recently mentioned that her Apple Watch (why isn’t it an iWatch?) is 4 years old, probably won’t get any more update, and has a couple of dead pixels. I can predict what birthday present she’ll be buying herself from me. No idea what new features it’ll have. On the plus side...