Yeah. What’s up with that?
Either I’m getting older faster than I thought, or companies are end-of-lifing things a lot faster these days. Maybe it’s true what they say about life: It’s like a roll of toilet paper. The less there is left, the faster it goes.
But then there’s this...A few years back, my wife got a Vista machine (It was what was available at the time), and my three-year-old HP printer did not have a driver. The HP website said the printer would never have a driver because they weren’t going to support post-XP computers. Their solution? “Buy a new HP printer.” Well, that sentence was two letters too long for me and I got a Canon multi-function, <$100. Works great today. (Well, it would if the Vista hadn’t have died leaving the printer w/o a server, but that’s another story)
So maybe I’m not getting older faster, they’re building obsolescence in faster than they used to.