I know what you saying but for some individuals doesnt make sense to fork out for the new version as the old one is more thatn enough.
You cannot expect this statement to pass while being involved in IT and marketing. An unsupported product can barely be called "more than enough" when a third party change will soon invalidate everything built with it, either way.
Imagine how upset youd be if you spent £10K on a car then after a few years the manufacturers said they gonan stop supporting it, no longer can you buy new parts for it and anything goes wrong with it they wont help at all.
Then new road laws come in saying every car needs to have a light under the car, but you now cant buy one for that car, only option is to scrap the £10k car and buy another..
You just described "warranty" and "obsolescence". Those are existing real-world concepts.
You're also comparing
a
£10000 value car, the
government creating and legislating laws in "a few years" without giving manufacturers and consumers alike a reasonable time frame to adapt (if there was a reasonable time frame, you wouldn't buy a car that won't be usable in a few years, and even if you do, it would likely break down in that time anyway), which would render the value of the car null as it would be entirely illegal to drive,
to
a software license that had at most a retail value of
$799, had an active development life span of around six years from start to finish and still works for all of its intended purposes outside of those cases where a
third party company has dropped support for it.
To put this into perspective...
Microsoft, a multi-
billion dollar company, stopped supplying updates for its older operating systems a decade or two after their initial release and newly released software is no longer compatible with them (with or without correlation to the stopped supply of updates).
Mobile device manufacturers stop updating their device's operating systems a few years after release, add new features to newer versions which are then used by app developers, making those apps incompatible with the older devices that are stuck on older operating systems.
Even the entirely software-less DVI display adapter cable I bought six years ago won't fit into the monitor I purchased a week ago and I had to buy a DisplayPort one instead.
Now imagine if governments were drafting up new road laws, legislating them after a decade or so, then fine people who are still driving cars that don't comply with today's ecology standards and even prohibit them from entering specific metropolitan areas... no, even prohibit them from driving their car
home if it happens to be a low emission zone and their perfectly functional car is not suitable for it.
... that's
exactly what is happening
right now.
Nobody's gonna bother to replace that old car's engine. It would make no sense from a business standpoint. Continuing to support and maintain old products indefinitely is a one-way road to bankruptcy as it incurs costs and barely, if at all, generates revenue.