Monster and Beats ended their partnership in 2012, and Apple didn't acquire Beats till 2014.
Airport had a long run, and even when discontinued, Apple offered to service Airport products for five years.
Yes, Ping got the axe, and my heart goes out to both of Ping's active users.
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Oh well, did you remove everything on the list that Google shut down post-acquisition? No? Okay then.
"Yes, Ping got the axe, and my heart goes out to both of Ping's active users."
Would you change your tune if you discovered the canceled google products had less users than Ping?
Google isn't cancelling majority-user products either. If the whole point is not to hurt the minority, you are just showing you aren't willing to apply the same standards.
This whole comment feels that way - a strong inability to apply the same standards to two companies.
I’m not criticizing Google or defending Apple. I’m just saying, your examples weren’t very convincing. If that’s the worst of Apple’s product cancellations (including one claim which wasn’t even true), that’s way better than average.
You can get support for mac/etc stuff for 5 years after purchase (which admittedly is nice). However, before you decide that is awesome, things like the headphones were killed with no support regardless of purchase date.
Apple also refuses to call anything it stopped manufacturing "canceled" at all.
It deliberately tries to message this part, calling them "vintage" until they have been "not manufactured" (IE canceled) for at least 7 years. They are then called "obsolete". This is messaging specifically used to try to confuse the issue, and is unfortunately likely effective.
See https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624
Apple doesn't turn down a lot of open API's because they never have them in the first place, which i'm not sure is better.
(They do turn down existing closed APIs, and not uncommonly by force - saying if you want to put your app on the store, you must use new version of API x)