It is crazy that they can just abandon hardware that drove sales of their software after only a few years.
Either you fix anything that is broken, i.e. bug fixes both security and non-security related, or you should be required to let the people who bought it fix it, forever.
Did you stop supporting Windows 95? Ok, time to put it's source code and build tools into the public domain.
but supporting 2+Ghz 64-bit x86’s in 2023 isn’t really asking a lot.. and android phones in particular need to be prosecuted criminally for their ocean garbage
You still need to support those, or your expensive factory automation platform stops working.
Unless society as a whole is entirely on-board on paying factory renovations, or the environmental impact of such upheaval of scrapping away working manufacturing plants.
They are garbage the moment the battery ages out. For some tablets, that meant one or if very lucky, two years. That's a lot of nice screens to the bin for something that otherwise should be trivial to replace.