Apple needs to focus on legacy support for both hardware and software. Software should gracefully fall back on features to work with older hardware. Older software should continue to work on newer hardware. Apple can make this happen all the way back and that would support the classics of software from the past. Just because they're updating and want to sell new hardware doesn't mean our media and software should be abandoned.
This also would be the green thing to do.
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It sounds like you have found a vulnerability in Apple's product strategy. You could establish a competing company and beat Apple if you follow the practices that you outlined. If consumers truly value what you suggest then you will be rewarded handsomely by our free enterprise system.
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Apple needs to focus on legacy support for both hardware and software. Software should gracefully fall back on features to work with older hardware. Older software should continue to work on newer hardware. Apple can make this happen all the way back and that would support the classics of software from the past. Just because they're updating and want to sell new hardware doesn't mean our media and software should be abandoned.
This also would be the green thing to do. __________________
It sounds like you have found a vulnerability in Apple's product strategy. You could establish a competing company and beat Apple if you follow the practices that you outlined. If consumers truly value what you suggest then you will be rewarded handsomely by our free enterprise system.