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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.

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  1. Queue Apple Video in 3... 2... by null+etc. · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."

  2. Re: Who Cares? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1, Funny

    it's about the narrative. nobody knows, if that son of a carpenter really existed

    Nobody really knows if the iPhone 4 existed, too.

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  3. Re: Five years in "vintage" by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Funny

    You forgot to mention the worthless ridiculous high spoiler, and the stupid oversided muffler designed to make the engine sound louder, not quieter.

    Worthless is in the eye of the beholder. I wouldn't go for the big spoiler, but I would very much like the loud muffler.

    I call it the small penis compensator and low self esteem machine.

    Nah, that's not a small penis compensator. Now THIS is a small penis compensator:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/...

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  4. Re:Two trends converge by KiloByte · · Score: 3, Funny

    When Linux doesn't meet your use case, you can fix it or pay someone to have it fixed. When OS X or Windows have the slightest bug, tough cookies, there's precisely nothing you can do.

    And for this particular article, you can use Linux on that 2010 MacBook Air just fine. Linux doesn't support hardware forever -- the kernel requires at least 486 and Debian just bumped the minimal requirements for i386 to 686, but for the latter that's still good 20 years of support.

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  5. Re:Where's my new MacPro Tower? by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just admit it already--you're waiting for one shaped like Yoda.

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  6. Stopping support after 5 years is not that bad by GuB-42 · · Score: 1, Funny

    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.

  7. Re: Five years in "vintage" by backslashdot · · Score: 3, Funny

    FYI, mental health services and trans-cranial electro-shock therapy is covered under Obamacare.

    Just saying.