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Apple To Obsolete iPhone 4 and Late 2010 MacBook Air On October 31 (macrumors.com)
Apple will make all iPhone 4 models, the late 2010 13-inch MacBook Air, third-generation AirPort Extreme, and mid-2009 AirPort Time Capsule obsolete come October 31, MacRumor claims, citing a different report. From the report: Apple products on the vintage and obsolete list are no longer eligible for hardware service, beyond a few exceptions. Apple defines vintage products as those that have not been manufactured for more than five years but less than seven years ago, while obsolete products are those that were discontinued more than seven years ago. Each of the products added were released between 2009 and 2010. The report specifically pertains to Apple's vintage and obsolete products list in Japan, but the new additions will more than likely extend to the United States, Australia, Canada, and the rest of the Asia-Pacific and Europe regions.
They do this all the time, and have for years.
My 96 Civic must be worth a fortune.
Jony Ive appears on screen, against a stark white background. "The design of our new MacBook Pro fuses form and function into a new degree of usability and intuitiveness. Once you pick it up and start using it, all of the cares of the world simply fade away behind the brilliant illumination of our Super Retina display. It's a design that is at once both futuristic, and timeless. But not TOOOOO timeless - our world class engineering teams will only support this miraculous marvel of engineering for the next five years, so get yours while you can."
Ditch the grand experiment of the trash can Mac and give me a new workstation-class case.
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
If you can't make them fail then just disown them.
While we're on the subject of support for aging Apple products... SMH.
How nice of you to invent unspoken positions for Trump supporters, then trash those supporters for holding those unspoken positions you invented for them - it saves them the hard work of forming their own positions and articulating them.
These invented positions, coupled with unsubstantiated allegations about Trump, definitely convince me that you're having a hard time coming up with actual facts to discredit Trump with...
Ken
Recently Slashdot ran an article about Apple hardware lagging behind the latest technologies by as much as a year or two, couple that with their decision to stop supporting hardware after seven years, and current Apple products are over-priced devices with a limited useful life, dictated by the whims of designers.
Sure, older Apple desktops and laptops are still useful after Apple drops support for the OS running on older hardware, but their usefulness diminishes without OS security patches/updates.
Ken
If the source code for the OS in old Apple hardware were made public those old machines might become a magnet for hackers. Also, how much of the current software contains much of the old code? I wonder if the latest Mac OS is 90% the stuff that's five to seven years old.
I don't know anything about your Telecaster but my guess it's not connected to the Internet since it was born in 1967, long before the Internet existed, so public information about it is not likely to result in any hacking of its usefulness.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
...your fun at partys...
Apple is doing the bare minimum necessary to comply with California law for spare parts in consumer electronics. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Apple's offhand comments about the age of electronics consistently reference an interval shorter than seven years.
Sold until September 2013. I guess that 3 years renders a product "obsolete" in the Apple world...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
I'm typing away on an obsoleted Mac Mini running the latest version of MacOS. Still works fine. Just as with you Atari ST, it's not going to get official support from the vendor, but I fully expect that I can keep using it for the next 20 years if I really felt like it. The #1 point of failure, the hard drive, is a relatively simple fix.
You are arguing 'security through obscurity'. I thought we killed that line of thought years ago...
Good-bye
What positions are Trump supporters accused of holding that there is not substantial demographic evidence showing that at least millions of his supporters do hold? In short what are you talking about?
It says behavior, not positions. As far as his behavior, first he brags about grabbing lady bits, then when wimmins' come out and say yep, he's telling the truth, Trump calls them liars.
Was he lying to Billy Bush, or is he lying now?
Defend it, own it, Trump supporter. But be careful, this is the kind of thing that Kirk used to blow up the AI computer in Star Trek.
Not really. What I'm saying is that should Apple or other PC makers release their OS software code to the public all hell would break loose not only for the old hardware but new OS/hardware too. Of course, high end, sophisticated hackers manage to find ways to defeat the newest stuff. Just don't make it easier for them and others.
The Fender hardware could be hacked but that would occur by a repair shop and easily traced to its source.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
Still love my Aluminum Macbook from late 2008. Too old for my kids' Minecraft, but does flash games and internet in general fine.
Of course it's too slow for recent versions of MacOS, but still works nicely on the latest version of Linux Mint.
Apple hardware is still good (when they have updated specs, of course), it's just their OSs that makes things obsolete.
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
SO everyone is up in arms that Apple is obsoleting a 6 year old phone and computer.
Yet they don't say shit when HTC/Dell/HP/Samsung does the exact same thing every year to all the models that are 1 year old or more.
Go ahead and get a Software update from HTC for that HTC ONE 7... to the latest released android.. which is version 7.0... homm wierd not even the HtC one M8 or M9 can get 7.0 installed....
Huh....
It just needs an update (as does the whole Mac line at this point).
The cooling design is good, and it offers plenty of expandability via ports. Make it as ugly as you like if you want to, but leave something slimmer for the rest of us that are fine with the core system plus something like a large external disk enclosure...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
What I'm saying is that should Apple or other PC makers release their OS software code to the public all hell would break loose not only for the old hardware but new OS/hardware too.
Why should that be? Finding exploitable bugs through the source code is not an easy way to do it. If you pay attention to the news on here you might notice the occasional security flaw in open source software that has been unnoticed for over a decade.
....your fun at partys
You can write drivers for windows and if you have enough money, they will include features for you.
Software is no more or less vulnerable with the source code available. Everything can be decompiled to a hex dump and then to assembly instructions. With the code available at least the interested parties have a chance to patch vulnerabilities as they are discovered, with an abandoned piece of software they are SOL. I'd take a slightly lower barrier to discovery over an inabiliy to fix any day. That said, as someone mentioned before, I suspect intellectual property is the biggest barrier to companies releasing abandoned code. These products dont get rewritten every release, they evolve, and I imagine we'd be surprised how old a lot of the code in these products is.
FYI, Ubuntu is very smooth and fast on my 2008 mbp, FreeBSD runs nice too but drivers less so. Just because Apple doesn't want you to use it doesn't mean it's useless, don't buy more Apple shit if they keep prematurely obsoleting things with hardware that's barely improved.
You can still use your 5 year old devices, they won't spontaneously explode.
I heard that they recently contacted Samsung in order to find a way to fix this problem.
My mid-2010 15'' MBP still works as a champ (dual 512GB SSDs, 8GB RAM). It goes or I go.
I've got a 1967 Fender Telecaster. It's a beauty. Plays a treat. Fender probably don't support it any more but my local guitar tech can fix it as he's got wiring diagrams etc.
Bit of a difference there. Like dozens of orders of magnitude.
The "electronics" in a 1967 Fender Telecaster (like most "electric" guitars/basses) is laughably primitive. A couple of Potentiometers, a Capacitor, a 1/4" Jack, a pickup-switch (if needed) and one or more inductive pickups. We're done now.
Now, let's compare that with the electronics in a Macbook Air...
If the source code for the OS in old Apple hardware were made public those old machines might become a magnet for hackers. Also, how much of the current software contains much of the old code? I wonder if the latest Mac OS is 90% the stuff that's five to seven years old. I don't know anything about your Telecaster but my guess it's not connected to the Internet since it was born in 1967, long before the Internet existed, so public information about it is not likely to result in any hacking of its usefulness.
That Fender Telecaster not only doesn't run any code; but it doesn't even have one transistor, let along the millions that are in something like a MacBook Air.
Even Guitars/Basses with "Active Electronics" are not even 1/4 as sophisticated inside as a 1960 battery-operated AM transistor radio...
You are arguing 'security through obscurity'. I thought we killed that line of thought years ago...
No doubt. Since Linux has by far the smallest desktop marketshare of any OS and yet has many more times the malware than does macOS (OS X).