I think Apple is behaving reasonably here, at least, I don't think they're deliberately breaking older devices w/ updates, so I wouldn't apply the phrase "plann

I think Apple is behaving reasonably here, at least, I don't think they're deliberately breaking older devices w/ updates, so I wouldn't apply the phrase "planned obsolescence," exactly. But I'll conceded that normal programmer laziness (i.e., optimize just enough to make it run acceptably on latest hardware) ends up having the same effect. Software patents & much of copyright seem to me to be to be hurting more than they are helping. I'd love to experiment w/ ditching those. While we're at it, we should legally mandate that devices are open to 3rd party app stores and be "jailbroken" by anyone that cares to do so. (It's pretty crazy that the dominant artist medium of our time is controlled by a single, outrageously censorious entity. Thank god we've got the web, at least. (For now.))