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> But if Ford found a major safty defect in the airbags of old models, people would expect a fix.

If Ford gave everyone a new car as compensation nobody would complain they didn't fix the old one.

FWIW I hate the new design and moved to FireFox, but I don't think chrome needs to support the old one.

Because the new one would be substantially more valuable (this is a well known quirk of the car market). If someone actually complained, I suspect Ford would be required to make them whole by either fixing the old car, or providing the cash value of the old car.

A windows 10 license is arguably more valuable than a windows 3.0 disk. Software depreciates with age just the same although for different reasons.

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