What does an iOS update that cannot support the older hardware anymore have to do with what I posted about OS X? NOT A THING. What you are doing is called a straw man argument, Mad Dawgg. It is a logical fallacy and inappropriate debating procedure. Again you show you have no clue about Apple products. Why not go read some other threads?
The reason Apple did not allow the new iOS to be loaded on the oldest iPad was because it simply did NOT HAVE THE HARDWARE TO HANDLE THE NEW iOS. Do you want them to load the OS and have it crash???? Not me.
It is called PROGRESS, Mad Dawgg, something you of which you apparently don't have any understanding. Apple adds new functionality to the product that was not foreseen when the first model came out in 2010. It's FIVE YEARS LATER and a lot of new things have been added to the operation of the iPad and the iPhone. So it requires new things in iOS that are completely unsupported in the older models.
My original iPad is doing quite fine in the hands of one of my daughters, thank you. It just doesn't run the latest iOS. SO WHAT? It works fine for an almost FIVE YEAR OLD piece of equipment. Samsung's orignal tablets could not even be upgraded to the latest Android OS. . . and most Android phones cannot be upgraded at all. . . so QUIT your BELLYACHING about something you know nothing about. . . You don't use this hardware, so WHAT ARE YOU COMPLAINING ABOUT? The world and technology moves on. I am not offended by it, why are you?
Oh OK so when I pointed out that Apple uses planned obsolescence when they update their software to a point it won't work on their older devices and you say their updates make the newer items faster (hahahaha) then that would be a straw man argument to.
And then when you consider my first point and rebuttal to your lame try to hide Apple's nefarious fleecing as (hahaha) improving the situation, it was not I at all who was engaging in straw man but instead me trying to drag you back to the issue that you are trying to cover up.
And of course that makes you wrong yet again... (which for me is the best part)
Bottom line Apple's entire market plan is to sell Applebots iGadgets then make those gadgets obsolete tech in 4 yrs or so, sooner if they can get away with it, so the Applebots will need buy more.
And that makes apple like all the other computer tech companies.