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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.
Do know what else is obsolete? Donald Trump's behavior. He's going to get beaten badly in November. His supporters are out of touch old white people secretly wish for the "gold old days" of Jim Crow laws but don't have the balls to say it. Racist pieces of shit....
If you can't make them fail then just disown them.
That must be a new release from Apple.
Just like them.
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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.
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It's about time that there were laws enacted in all civilized countries that when a piece of software is "obsoleted" (i.e. no longer supported by the manufacturer) then the code/schematics *MUST* be open sourced.
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.
If a company no longer wants to support old hard/soft ware fine. At that point it should become public domain so people who want to continue using perfectly good hard/software can carry on doing so.
I'm sick of these aresholes deliberately trying to produce landfill full of computer hardware, which could still be perfectly well used.
My Telecaster still plays beautifully. My XP machines still work perfectly. My ATARI ST still works perfectly, My HP calculator from the 70's still woks perfectly etc. etc. Fuck forced obsolescence.
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FirsT, you have to are tied up in Love of two is
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!
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
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You can write drivers for windows and if you have enough money, they will include features for you.
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.