The only Apple products that I can think of that haven't degraded in quality over time are the iPods and maybe the Apple Watch.
replyDo you mean Airpods?
replyiPods were a very popular Apple product once upon a time...
replyAbsolutely agree - happened on MBP, 2 generations of iPads, and Watch...For iPads and Watch, I thought that it might just be the famous battery health vs performance tradeoff they enforce on us, but I rarely ever used the MBP on battery, it was plugged in 95% of the time.
replyThis may be true (not perceptible w/ my apple silicon Macs), but the important thing is that they get slower more slowly than my wintel gets slower (I blame disgruntled Windows and/or nvidia drivers devs....)
replyMy Apple ][+ improved with age as I added things like 48K of RAM, a floppy disk, a language card, etc...
replyiOS 26 made my iPhone SE pretty much unusable.
replyfirst gen? Because my SE from 2023 works very well with the latest 26.5 version.
replyFirst gen tops out at iOS15. I just shelved mine (used for a low-end test), a few months ago.
replyI use an iPhone X as my low-end test, now. It tops out on 18.