[choward]

That is terrible. So they'll never create a device that is good enough that they'll sell for for 6 years unless they sell something they don't support.

[pgeorgi]

Or extend the support: https://9to5google.com/2019/11/05/google-chromebooks-extende...

Other than that, few vendors sell 6 year old computers. Since Apple is often put up as model company here: 2013 had the iPhone 5s which was sold until early 2016, and the end-2013 MacBook Pro (based on Haswell) which was replaced by its successor in 2014 (based on Haswell-Refresh).

[daemin]

I think the point was that the product was so minimal and cheap that you would throw it away and get a new one like a phone.

[kulahan]

Correct. That's why the vast majority of them are ~$250 or less