Every manufacturer of consumer electronics is like that. The explanation is simple and not evil: Moore's law. It just makes no sense to sell products with last

Every manufacturer of consumer electronics is like that. The explanation is simple and not evil: Moore's law. It just makes no sense to sell products with last year's technology. That doesn't mean that the old products become automatically obsolete. My 2007 MBP still works. My 2004 iPod mini still works. My parents' 2008 Compaq laptop still works.