> Apple is absolutely trying to make your experience of an older iProduct craptastic. But... so is everyone else in the industry. It's just that Apple, who once made very decent products, had much higher from which to fall.

My personal laptop is a 7 year old Dell G5 running Linux Mint.

My experience using that on a daily basis is actually pretty decent. Very smooth sailing. It is good enough that I keep postponing my decision to get a new machine.

So, no. This is an Apple problem, not "everyone else in the industry".