th3james

Good point, I shall update the post to clarify

Yeah, I'd forgotten about 'New 3DS'. Almost as bad as the iPad Air > iPad 2 mess Apple had going on.

Good point. Consumer washing machines certainly don't seem to have much utility to me, but for shared appliances, something like what you suggested might make sense. Maintenance and updates for machines and software could also be handled by a contract with the building (which isn't really desirable for consumer products).