To be 100% honest, that wasn't really my point. When I said "old" I meant like 1980. Like analog electronics.

My reason for mentioning that cheap Walmart ones is because I'm not sure what there is to break on them, or what failure you are managing to produce.

And most modern phones do not.

Also most noise cancelling options still require the battery, particularly active noise cancelling, which is what Sony uses, and why their noise canceling is so good.

Further certain use cases of the Sony headphones are require the use of the Sony headphone app (which I think they recently changed the name of) and once your battery is dead, or the app is depreciated, those will just be "pretty good" headphones, which you all need some kind of adapter for if you can even find the correct adapter, to use them on a device that doesn't have an audio out.

That said I am a Sony A/V nut. That is a good product, it's just not a lifetime product. Digital A/V equipment tends not to be.

You mean a UV bulb?

I don't know if any modern electronic is a lifetime product. That's the price we pay for them being pennies on the dollar compared to the old stuff.

But it also depends on what you mean by junk. My dad has had a cheap Target or Walmart clock radio for almost a decade. They shouldn't break easily as they don't get heavily handled.

Waste of money.

I looked thinking it was going to be literally just a plush Jack Daniel's bottle. Though I would have understood a minimally changed "Jack Russell's" bottle 🙃

But Jack doesn't own the concept of black labels and old timey font.