I don't know whether it's just me or not, but so much tech stuff seems to be of lower and lower quality. Ten years ago the kids and I knew that anything 'own brand' from Maplin had a 50/50 chance of not working. In the last couple of years I've had five WD hard drives fail, three Asus motherboards dead on arrival, and two more that died within warranty.
Those are just the more expensive bits, at least that many other tech toys eaten their last milliamp here.
It's been so bad that I've actually had the electricity bods out to test my mains supply, and absolutely everything is plugged in through surge protectors. And still it goes on.