This post is a great way to establish how many people never read past the title of an HN submission: keep them coming all those "I'll never buy from you again" :)
Would we accept that we couldn't update to Windows 10, or switch to Ubuntu, on our laptops, because the Compaq brand was discontinued in 2013?
IMO, the sales & service model of mobile devices has been focused on centralized top-down control, which can often serve to harm the user more than it helps them; especially in cases like this. There's a lot of variability in a statement like that though—why I thought it would be an interesting discussion topic.
This one about who read past the title is definitely orthogonal, but quite a simple to figure out if someone "did read"/"didn't read", so I'd really love to see someone collate the results: it is useful information to have, to at least compare HN users to the general public (which there already are studies on title-reading on, which drives all the tabloid out-of-context titles approach already).