> Apple is one of the most capitalistic companies out there, they want you to buy new stuff and they'll try everything they can to force users to upgrade sooner

> Apple is one of the most capitalistic companies out there, they want you to buy new stuff and they'll try everything they can to force users to upgrade sooner or later The more charitable view is that by not being wedded to backwards compatibility they can make their ecosystem stronger, faster. See https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/apples-relentless-strategy-and-execution-7544a76aa26 https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/apples-relentless-stra... for some discussion of those tradeoffs.