Eh. If we cling to the past, stuff's not going to get any better.
I've heard this argument used a lot, and it's a very poor one! :smile:
When someone expresses a dislike of something new, it's too easy to say "Yaah, you're just an old fart who's stuck in the past and can't cope with change!" It ignores one enormous possibility: that the new thing may genuinely be worse than the old thing.
Like many of us tech-heads, my instinct is always to embrace change with enthusiasm (and my bank account suffers for it). However, it is quite wrong to assume that all change is for the better. Usually, change
is for the better. But sometimes it isn't.
The smart thing is to know the difference. For example, (we aren't talking phones here) one of the biggest drivers of change is cost reduction. All manufacturers will drive down their costs as low as they can get away with, which sometimes means pushing out products which you or I might find too tacky and junky to enjoy owning. Sometimes the earlier models of a particular technology are stronger, more reliable (or whatever other parameter you are interested in) because they haven't been subjected to the cost reduction process.
Usually I love upgrading my software, no matter what the device. However,
for my purposes, W10M is less desirable to me than WP8.1.
You might be interested to know that I've also recently deleted the latest W10 Insider Preview from my main workstation and gone back to Windows 7! For my purposes, on a desktop workstation, W7 offers the best experience. However, I also have a Sony hybrid thing, and W10 is just perfect on that, especially the automatic switching between tablet and desktop modes when I flip out the keyboard.
So, don't assume that because someone complains about something new it automatically means they are resistant to change! :smile: