Pushing users to upgrade devices is unethical and harmful. Apple does it all the time and they should be held accountable for that.
Discarding old devices and creating new ones destroys the environment and increases pollution. The best device is the device you already own!
Their successful business strategy results in environmental destruction and other issues. Wh
But ignoring that for a moment, are you proposing that companies shouldn't improve hardware because it leads to software features that don't work on old devices, which leads to old devices being thrown away? That doesn't feel right to me.
[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181016142434.h...
During the lockdown, I had several Apple products that I wanted to bring to the store for disposal, but Apple wasn't taking any devices at all.
Then, once the restrictions were lifted, I found out that only one of the six Apple Stores in my area takes devices, and it was an hour away.
It seems to me that every Apple retail location should take back devices.
Huh. Long-time Apple user and my experience is they're really good about supporting older hardware, including when that hardware can't support the newest features. Usually (not always, but usually) if an older device doesn't get a feature, it's because it can't, but they keep getting updates anyway, just without the features they cannot support. That's the trade-off for more features being local-only or local-mostly rather than "cloud".