You're forgetting that consumer products companies want customers to buy new products, not keep using old ones indefinitely. It's in their financial interest t

You're forgetting that consumer products companies want customers to buy new products, not keep using old ones indefinitely. It's in their financial interest to deliberately EOL older products with no recourse for customers so long as the average customer doesn't wise up enough to shy away from the brand entirely. This is really digital planned obsolescence. A better company would be one funded by donations that reverse engineers protocols for these things and provides an open server to keep them alive, similar to what the Pebble community did.