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Boycott if you will but you'll have to boycott every single camera company.
Dropping legacy support is a standard business practice for companies that regularly develop and introduce new products into the market. They have a limit on how much they can support with writing new firmware code, maintaining skills, maintaining special calibrated tools, building parts, space to store parts on the shelf. Legacy support sucks up resources and over doing it can drop them into the red so they have to cut ties with the old product at some point or else they are moving backwards at the expense of current and future products.
This is also very common with software companies. Their software programmers should be spending their time and skills creating new firmware, applications, updates, upgrades, new features, and most importantly, fixing bugs in their current product. Exceptions are made if the legacy product is popular enough and will bring a return on investment. Also, third party vendors may pick up the slack. For example, you can literally build a 1969 Camaro from scratch entirely with aftermarket parts including a brand new metal body and chassis.
Edited on May 21, 2015 at 07:44 AM · View previous versions
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