You keep using that word, "Systemic obsolescence". I don't think it means what you think it means. For one, it doesn't mean "buying a company that makes a prod

You keep using that word, "Systemic obsolescence". I don't think it means what you think it means. For one, it doesn't mean "buying a company that makes a product, stop selling that product standalone and bundle it with your own offering". It means adding an artificial end-of-life to functionality in the things you sell. Not to stop selling (or in this case offering) a thing altogether. If that was the case, any company discontinuing any product life (Apple discontinuing the Powerbooks e.g) would be "systemic obsolescence" too... From wikipedia: "Planned systemic obsolescence is the deliberate attempt to make a product obsolete by altering the system in which it is used in such a way as to make its continued use difficult. "