Hey OliverrevilO, Before you decide to get up in someone's face you need to check the facts. I hear what your saying, but your argument has many holes, like a block of Swiss cheese. Looking at your Car analogy, which is faulty, as Varjak paw pointed out. Apple does do as car makers do-- Need a new Charging cable, Apple has that, Screen cracks, your can order one those, Battery goes south, Got it! etc. etc. You can obtain several years worth of parts for almost any device, just like car makers. And as for the parts being manufactured for earlier model cars, thank, Congress. Many years ago laws where past that forced car makers to supply parts for there cars for a fixed number of years, to prevent them from building in planned obsolesce-- but go past that date... good luck finding key parts! And the new car models come out with stuff all the time that earlier models do not have, two prime examples, A/C and cruise control. Once upon a time only the very expensive models had A/C and cruise control. Now I don't think you can buy car that doesn't have both as standard equipment. And to try an add these features to a car that did not come with them would be difficult, and probably not cost effective. More resent, back up cameras, they are just now coming as standard equipment, again-- because of an act of Congress. Just try to get a back up camera for 2001 Ford Taurus, from Ford, you'll be sent to an after market shop in short order!
As for the OS argument, True, XP had a LONG RUN, it was very stable, work well, and developers liked to work with it, (this fact was the main reason XP lasted as long as it did), but the lines of code got to be outrageously long. Vista was a bust, Widows 7-- good but lacking and now there's 8, which is still working out it's growing pains-- one of which is older devices that can not make the move to 8, won't work!
Truth be told in the world of consumer electronics, as soon as a product hits the shelf, the replacements, replacement is being worked on and developed, anything that has been around 1 to 2 years is old, 3 to 4 years an antique, anything more then 5, ancient history! Companies generally will support there devices for a while (Apple has one of the longest as Varjak paw stated), but sooner or later, there allowed to fade away for the next best thing. Don't get me wrong-- when you buy in late on the curve, it bits! But that's how it is, it catches us all sooner or later. Cheers.
