[ryandrake]

Absolutely, we could easily have any number of killedby[manufacturer] websites. A device being "old" is a common reason/excuse manufacturers use to stop supporting it. Just making the point that Apple is not a special exemption.

[fieryskiff12]

Even in a smaller scale, the VFX consortium had to be created when Sun stopped giving support to that part of Hollywood. Their position in the industry, the trends they set, and the intertwining of software and the "Liberal Arts" they clearly do have power upon, makes them a special exemption. If it was only of hardware they would have been out of business decades ago.

Could delve in the sheer amount of data rot created by it and their drop of 32 bit support, but would be even more broad of it.