I mean, you're right, but Microsoft's planned obsolescence here is a shorter cadence than Apple's.
All the newest Mac hardware that came out in 2018 still gets security updates to this day.
But there's plenty of brand-new Windows hardware that came out in 2021, which now must be thrown away because it didn't qualify for a future operating system they had planned.
So we can gripe about it for the next three years before "what about Apple" becomes totally valid. Still feels messed up that the global monopoly holder for PCs decided e-wasting a billion of them would fly under the radar. Hopefully most people realize they can download a little bit flip hack to undo Microsofts check.
>All the newest Mac hardware that came out in 2018 still gets security updates to this day.
Yeah but that's because Apple also made the HW and sold it to you directly so they're responsible for both SW and HW. Microsoft did not make or sell you the HW in most cases, they sold you an OS (unless you bought a prebuilt with an Windows OEM license, in which case Dell/Lenovo/etc is responsible).
I'm not excusing Microsoft's behavior, I'm just saying why they're not comparable to the way Apple does it.
>But there's plenty of brand-new Windows hardware that came out in 2021
Why? Old Mac hardware are also powerful enough to run Apple's latest OS, yet they won't bother backporting it. You have to throw away your Intel Macs.
Same for ChromeOS hardware.