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Re:Apple is officially no longer selling the newest Apple Wa... by evandale on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @03:20PM (#38775645)
My custom built desktop that runs Linux/Windows is going on 24 years old. I don't think 10 year old electronics are anything worth writing home about.

Apple also writes horrible software and breaks perfectly fine APIs with every OS release to eventually force you into hardware upgrades.

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Re:Apple is officially no longer selling the newest Apple Wa... by MikeKusold on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @03:52PM (#38775940)
Somehow I don’t believe your Pentium 3 (1999) or your Pentium 4 (2000) processor is still your main computer.

Windows and Ubuntu have dropped support for 32 bit processors.

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Re:Apple is officially no longer selling the newest Apple Wa... by dzhiurgis on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @12:03AM (#38779264)
Yeah an Apple Watch would have orders of magnitude more computing power :|
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Re:Apple is officially no longer selling the newest Apple Wa... by chuckhendo on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @03:54PM (#38775964)
Oh I don't disagree with that! I should have specified that, at least in the mobile world, Apple is much better about supporting their hardware for the average person than the alternatives
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Re:Apple is officially no longer selling the newest Apple Wa... by unsupp0rted on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @01:26AM (#38779595)
Saying that it's physically possible to build and service a desktop that lasts a quarter century has no relationship to the length of support a consumer electronics company should offer.

I can still boot my white clamshell Macbook from almost 20-years ago. It didn't disintegrate at the 5-year or 10-year mark.

That doesn't mean Apple must continue to support it.

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