Exactly. There have been a few cases where Apple have royally fucked their users over (in many cases to do with issuing "lemons", and then very quietly offering to replace the : see 5300 powerbooks) , but "releasing a new version with added bits and pieces" isn't one of them. In the majority of cases, they support hardware for a lot longer than one might consider "reasonable" - my G4/400 laptop still works with OSX 10.4.11, released in 2007, more than 6 years after the machine was itself released, and it's far from being the earliest machine that release will run on; any 333+Mhz G3 with built in USB will handle it, IIRC, which makes for 9 years or more of support on "latest release" OS. Of course, now those machines won't go any further without some hackage, but even without, it doesn't stop them being reasonable.RiK wrote:It doesn't suddenly stop working after that year does it? it still does all the stuff that it did when you bought it in the first place so why do you consider it obsolete?piku wrote:I'd consider paying £200 (or whatever it was) for an iPhone, only to find 12 months later there's a better one out a good definition for being "screwed over".
I'd expect to get more than a year's worth of use out of my device before it was made obsolete.
Car manufacturers bring out new models every year but that doesn't suddenly make the old one obsolete or somehow less than it was the day before does it?
All* tech is obsolete the moment you take it out of the store. I can see 12 days or so being annoying, but 12 months? Get real.
* Apart from my Newton. A CURSE UPON YOU, STEVE JOBS!
What odds will you give me? 
