I had an original iPhone SE that I intended to keep until they pried it from my cold dead hands. But keeping it stopped being tenable rather sooner than I expe

I had an original iPhone SE that I intended to keep until they pried it from my cold dead hands. But keeping it stopped being tenable rather sooner than I expected. Shortly after Apple released the first version of iOS that couldn't be installed on it, app developers started shipping versions that required that new version, and shortly after that they started killswitching older versions of their apps. I was able to say "good riddance" the first few times that happened, but once it started happening to apps I consider indispensable, I ended up deciding that I didn't actually want to live in a parallel universe where Steve Jobs won the fight to not have 3rd-party apps on iOS. RMS has a point about how you don't really own any software or devices that depend on a closed-source cloud service to function.