Reply to post: Re: Nope, works

Running joke: That fitness gadget? It's, er, run out

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Re: Nope, works

"As for being obsolete, you may want to pay attention to how many versions Apple presently supports concurrently - v4 is even still in the shops while the latest one is v6.."

Apple didn't even start making watches until 2015, and the fact that a product less than two years old is still in in the shops is hardly a spectactular endorsement of support. I know people still happily using Garmin watches from 2003, while less smart watches routinely last for decades. Apple's reputation for good support is not actually based on them being any good, but rather on everyone else who makes mobile phones being utter shit.

Maybe Apple will turn out to support their watches better than their phones, and maybe it's unfair to criticise them for making their old products obsolete when they've only been making them for a few years and haven't had time to... oh, right, they've already stopped suporting all their watches made before 2017.

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