Ok so people purchased this product and were using it. Apple then bought the company, and made the product (which until today worked perfectly fine on current hardware) an exclusive on their new hardware, requiring significant cost of upgrading, and then they dismantled the old product and prevented their legitimate owners from using them any more, all in order to force the customers to do an expensive hardware upgrade if they wanted to keep using their product.

It's pretty amazing that this sort of thuggish strongarm tactic is a legal business practice. It's comparable to car manufacturers using OnStar to disable the brakes on 2011 models as soon as the 2012 ones come out.