Hardware breaks if you maintain it.
Eric Clapton never would have let his bag of coke fall out of a 49th-story window!
The bond matures.*
One costs a lot of money to maintain, keep running, and give you the results you want. The other has four wheels.
Because none of their readers believe them when they receive a warning that it's their final issue.
His hardware was Microsoft
You buy it a nice bunch of software and get it loaded!