Having predefined end-of-life date on a device is absolutely planned obsolescence in a literal sense; it is both planned and it makes the device obsolete and th

Having predefined end-of-life date on a device is absolutely planned obsolescence in a literal sense; it is both planned and it makes the device obsolete and they definitely knew it would make the device obsolete when making the decision, doubly so in ipads case where user has no options to do anything about it (on chromebooks at least you could in theory install different OS afaik?).