[jeo123]

People praised Apple for doing that. Apple basically impose MacOS subscription via hardware deprecation every 6-7 years. Judge sided with Apple over Epic for the store payment too. Microsoft is basically mimicking Apple from afar with more direct approach of direvt fee charging instead of hiding it in so.e kind of "premium Apple tax". You want they dont do that, then as consumers, trash Apple behavior. Force them to be fully accountable for and open up their OS to multi-platform hardware. You dont do that. You praise Apple. Then domt fault others to immitate that success route of laughing to the banks.

[LapsangGuzzler]

6-7 years is a pretty reasonable amount to get out of a consumer electronic device. Hardware still makes large gains over that period of time and Apple doesn’t brick those old devices , you can still run them for years on out-of-service OS versions.

That’s just not equivalent to a Microsoft subscription fee, which presumably bricks the device as soon as you stop paying. Not to mention that I’m lucky if I get 3 years out of a stock windows machine that has whatever Lenovo surveillance tool running on it.

[masijo]

>6-7 years is a pretty reasonable amount to get out of a consumer electronic device

According to whom? I find it unacceptable. There is nothing stopping a 2016 Mac from running a modern OS (and it indeed runs with latest Windows/Linux).