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Owning iOS, Android and Windows stuff I don't buy the argument that Apple's products last longer than those of other companies. I still have a Vaio running Windows XP at home that was bought at some time in 2003. It runs all sorts of periphery from an old Minolta slide scanner that uses a SCSI interface (!) right up to the latest colour laser printers. Is there anyone here who wants to tell us about the 2003 Mac they still have in daily use? People don't even recall the name of Apple's system that was released at that time while XP has been an enormously durable investment. It's no surprise that still about 30% of PCs run it globally.
Apple will also ruthlessly drop support for standards that they promoted in the past. Firewire? Oh, sorry, we don't use that standard any more but we will happily sell you a little piece of plastic for 50 € to make it work.
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