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>>ortusd+(OP)
Imagine, a technology that a company can tell you is obsolete. Is that even a technology? The wheel isn't obsolete. The coal powered steam engine is, but that's not because someone says so, that's because it's just naturally no longer useful, other things have since been invented that are more useful for it's same purpose. Why not buy technology that's no longer useful to you when you decide that?

>>friend+qV1
The wheel as a general technology isn't obsolete, but a model year 4000BCE wheel certainly is.

In your analogy that would be like Apple declaring the Smartwatch category obsolete, which they have not done.

>>stetra+Mi2
No, it would be like if the manufacturer of a certain wheel flipped a switch and your wheel no longer worked.

You cans till right now use a model year 4000BCE wheel if you want to and if it suits your purpose. You decide when your property is no longer useful to you. That is not the case with the apple watch, or with a plethora of other devices out there. The device belongs to the company that made it, not to its supposed owner, if the owner has no say in when it becomes useless.