I’m not saying I think it would be a bad thing for support to continue. I just don’t think it should be legally required. If a small company decided to develop and produce a device, knowing they’d have to perpetually support it, legally, makes it exponentially cumbersome to continue further development. Newer software may not be able to run on older hardware, meaning they’d have to develop and maintain multiple versions of any security fix. For Apple, it’d hardly be a problem (financially) to continue support.
On the other hand, I understand that this creates a situation where new phones keep being churned out that are hardly different hardware-wise. It’d be lame to stop supporting the older devices just to push people to buy another one (Apple). There’s probably some middle ground to be found here.
I’m not saying I think it would be a bad thing for support to continue. I just don’t think it should be legally required. If a small company decided to develop and produce a device, knowing they’d have to perpetually support it, legally, makes it exponentially cumbersome to continue further development. Newer software may not be able to run on older hardware, meaning they’d have to develop and maintain multiple versions of any security fix. For Apple, it’d hardly be a problem (financially) to continue support.
On the other hand, I understand that this creates a situation where new phones keep being churned out that are hardly different hardware-wise. It’d be lame to stop supporting the older devices just to push people to buy another one (Apple). There’s probably some middle ground to be found here.