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It's not making anything obsolete. Nobody is losing anything. This is a new feature, which they have chosen to make available to recent hardware only. I suppo

It's not making anything obsolete. Nobody is losing anything. This is a new feature, which they have chosen to make available to recent hardware only. I suppose you could argue whether the performance features of new devices is really necessary for this new feature to work well (and what does "work well" even mean - is occasional choppiness OK? How low does latency have to be?) but old devices are not losing anything because they never had this feature to begin with.

bsaul 7y ago
that's not how things work, apple products form an ecosystem, they work together : i buy an ipad pro, now i'd like to use the feature with my 2013 mbp. Oh, but i can't, because it's too old ( or is it ?) Same thing with apple watch. i "had to" buy an iphone 6 at the time because my 4gs couldn't have the apple watch software installed.
- DavideNL 7y ago
  This is equal to complaining i can't tank electricity with my old Diesel fuel Volkswagen, because the new models can. It's innovation. There are (hardware, ...) limitations, so you simply cannot run the same software on old hardware.
- jsjohnst 7y ago
  > buy an iphone 6 at the time because my 4gs couldn't have the apple watch software installed Apple Watch supported iPhone 5 and higher. It’s a limitation of the BLE stack on the iPhone 4S (the 4S has BLE, but there were issues with it).
  - bsaul 7y ago
    I agree, it was just an example on how « adding something new » may cause existing hardware obsolete, if you look at it from an ecosystem pov.
    - thebruce87m 7y ago
      They get accused of planned obsolescence either way. Implement the feature on old hardware, but it’s slow or crippled? Planned obsolescence. Don’t implement the feature... planned obsolescence.
      - bsaul 7y ago
        Well, the solution is easy : implement it everywhere the best you can, and make it optional so that you can disable it on slow hardware. It's basically the way software updates has worked for ever. Only since apple ( because it controls both the hardware and software) do we see features not deployed on old hardware because it may eventually not give you the best experience.

bsaul 7y ago

that's not how things work, apple products form an ecosystem, they work together : i buy an ipad pro, now i'd like to use the feature with my 2013 mbp. Oh, but i can't, because it's too old ( or is it ?) Same thing with apple watch. i "had to" buy an iphone 6 at the time because my 4gs couldn't have the apple watch software installed.

DavideNL 7y ago
This is equal to complaining i can't tank electricity with my old Diesel fuel Volkswagen, because the new models can. It's innovation. There are (hardware, ...) limitations, so you simply cannot run the same software on old hardware.
jsjohnst 7y ago
> buy an iphone 6 at the time because my 4gs couldn't have the apple watch software installed Apple Watch supported iPhone 5 and higher. It’s a limitation of the BLE stack on the iPhone 4S (the 4S has BLE, but there were issues with it).
- bsaul 7y ago
  I agree, it was just an example on how « adding something new » may cause existing hardware obsolete, if you look at it from an ecosystem pov.
  - thebruce87m 7y ago
    They get accused of planned obsolescence either way. Implement the feature on old hardware, but it’s slow or crippled? Planned obsolescence. Don’t implement the feature... planned obsolescence.
    - bsaul 7y ago
      Well, the solution is easy : implement it everywhere the best you can, and make it optional so that you can disable it on slow hardware. It's basically the way software updates has worked for ever. Only since apple ( because it controls both the hardware and software) do we see features not deployed on old hardware because it may eventually not give you the best experience.