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My 3rd generation iPad became functionally useless after only 6-7 years even though the hardware was pristine. Almost half of the apps on it, including some major ones like YouTube, started refusing to run because they had a mandatory Update, and the App Store wouldn't provide updates for the newest iOS version that the 3rd gen could support.
Meanwhile my Windows laptop that I bought at the same time is still in service after 12 years. Windows going out of support just means you don't get the security updates; Apple going out of support means they'll brick your machine.
Fuck Apple to infinity.
It is exactly why I'm an apple hater, as an owner of an iPad mini and Intel iMac. Both are basically bricks.
The iPad can't even be used to browse websites because Apple it's so magnanimous to tie browser updates to the operating system. Once the os is EOL, the browser is EOL, and all the third party browsers too, as Apple forces devs to use the system browser as engine (= Firefox, Chrome for iOS basically are glorified Safari skins). Apps for iOS almost all require the latest version and you can't download a previous version unless you have a Time machine and you press download before the cutoff. Imagine on Android if apps required Android 15 and greater. Instead most of them can still run on Android 10 and even earlier.
The iMac, despite being a 4th gen Intel with dedicated AMD GPU, it's also a brick. Every app (including Firefox, Chrome, etc) requires a recent MacOS version (here devs aren't targeting latest and greatest, but still is annoying). Of course Apple still ties Safari updates on the operating system. Imagine on PC if apps required Windows 11 24H1. Because newer versions of MacOS don't have the driver for my dedicated GPU, they can't be tricked to install a newer version (I tried, it's unbearable to use MacOS without GPU acceleration, with all that eye candy it's a must have)
At least the iMac could run a different operating system... Debian shows a black screen and I would need an external monitor, Arch somehow turns off the USB ports on the back and I can't use keyboard and mouse... I have to use Windows 10....