Posted on 05/18/2015 8:33:37 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Apple is about to sunset support for a number of iPhones, Macs, and other products as it plans to switch several models to Obsolete or Vintage status in June, according to internal documents.
When a device receives Obsolete status from Apple Vintage status only applies to California and Turkey, where the company is required to continue offering support it no longer offers service or repair support through its own Apple retail stores or authorized service providers. It typically begins the process for models 5-7 years after manufacturing has been discontinued and maintains a list on its website here.
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It varies by developer, but I have an old iPhone 3GS running IOS6 that received updates to a few apps in the last week. Pandora in particular is good about supporting older versions; I suspect that being able to use old hardware as a streaming platform is a big reason a lot of their subscribers subscribe.
I also have an iPod Mini, discontinued 10 years ago, that I was able to plug into iTunes on Yosemite and restore.
Thanks for this thread. I checked and currently I am OK on phone and MacPro.
A little off topic what to do with older MacPro’s and old IPhones. They just sit on a shelf but we don’t know how to safely get rid of them, worried about information still on these devices.
iPhones have a wipe option.
Old computers, either pull the hard drive and get rid of the rest of the machine or run Dban to wipe the drive.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/
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