I admit it that I couldn’t find a source.

I remember reading an article posted here on lemmy around the time Asha Sharma shared her email to all Xbox employees about job cuts taking about how Microsoft focused on cloud and AI to the point they move around 4k engineers working as Windows team to other teams.

I believe they knew they’re losing the pc market. They dismantled windows team like 6 months ago.

Edit: I could not find a source.

The management quarterly meeting PowerPoint presentation says x3 more yachts for us.

Fair points, and I think we mostly agree.

I’m not defending Apple. The point is that the hardware outlasts the software support, and because the bootloader is locked, you can’t do anything about it once updates stop. That’s the e-waste problem you’re describing.

I’d only add that support has improved from the early iPhones, which got just a few years of updates, to 6-7 years now. That’s better, but it’s still a company-set expiry date on perfectly good hardware.

Open bootloaders and documented chips would let those phones in your drawer stay useful.

They’re the least bad guys.

Apple is great on longevity, but that’s not the issue here. Chip innovation has plateaued in recent years, so a 7-year-old iPhone is still plenty powerful. The hardware is solid, yet Apple locks the bootloader and never documents the chips, so running Linux on one means relying on exploits and reverse engineering.

In the 90s, the jump from 16 MHz to 233 MHz changed what a computer could do. A 1990 PC couldn’t run a 1997 game like Quake at all, and a 233 MHz machine ran it smoothly with 3D graphics. Today, going from 2.65 GHz to 4.26 GHz doesn’t unlock anything new. A 7-year-old phone runs the same apps and games as a brand-new one.

Once official support ends, you can’t just install another OS and keep using it. Great hardware, but not exactly open.

Did it just went rogue and installed arr setup for you?