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It’s absolutely economical. Apple only has to support a tiny number of devices that they themselves manufactured, they have the easiest job in the world.

Think about how many devices Microsoft has to support in Windows, it’s orders of magnitude more.

Apple doesn’t want to support older devices because they don’t see a benefit to themselves.

5 years of support is pitifully short. Pretty much everything I own lasts longer than 5 years, my phone is one of the things I have to replace most often, not because the hardware is broken, but because it stops receiving updates.