obsolete

Call me old fashioned but I still use my good ole GPS when I wanna get lost going on vacation. But most of the world seems to now use their Smartphone to do that and just about everything else under the sun.

Why is that as soon as you buy some fancy new technology thinking you're the coolest kid on the block that it becomes obsolete in no time? Or in the case of the Flip camera it just goes away! I think we have about eight of these puppies floating around the building.