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seekknowledge4ever t1_iune3tg wrote

And it is up to them to decide what and when becomes obsolete?

Is this supposed to be joke?

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BobbyP27 t1_iung3wb wrote

Obsolete in this sense means that they no longer provide routine service support for them. They will still go on working, and you can continue to use them, but if something breaks it means you can no longer take them along to your local Apple store and get them fixed.

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baleensavage t1_iuniain wrote

Unfortunately with internet browsers being one of the key things that computers have to use, the makers of the browsers are the ones that really dictate obsolescence of computers because once Chrome or even Firefox stops being updated on your computer, it's basically dead in the water. Apple also speeds this process up by tying Safari updates to the OS which means that once a computer can no longer get the newest Mac OS, it also can't get any more updates to Safari and you basically have to rely on third party browsers to keep that computer running.

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fdeyso t1_iunvgq6 wrote

It only means no major versin updates, they’ll still get security updates and patches for a good couple of years. The 2011 models still got patched this year.

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