Apple recently announced iOS 6, an awesome upgrade to their mobile operating system. But the WWDC ’12 announcement also revealed that iOS 6 would not be supported on the original iPad, which came out in 2010. The original iPad has significant technical limitations, and it is quite reasonable that Apple no longer wants to support the device. But two years is a terrible support cycle, and it was Apple’s decision to only put 256 MB of RAM in the thing, not the customer’s.
Since this news, I have been grumbling quite a bit about Apple’s hardware support. It didn’t help that a few weeks later, MobileMe shut down, and my mom could no longer sync her contacts and calendars between her Core Duo iMac and her iPhone 4. Her iMac still runs surprisingly well for an older computer – it’s actually quite fast and capable for all that she needs. But it can only run Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and is therefore incompatible with iCloud. At first, I was quite frustrated. I felt like Apple’s support cycles were getting worse and worse. But I later found out that her Mac is from 2006, and decided that a six-year support cycle actually isn’t so bad, after all. Curious about the history of Apple’s support cycle, I decided to do some research.
I focused my investigation on the recent stuff, but I did notice that the Macintosh Plus, released in 1986, could run the latest system software until 1997 (!) when Mac OS 7.6 (the first version branded as “Mac OS”) was released. That’s 11 years of support. The original iMac G3 could run the latest OS from its release in 1998 to the debut of Tiger in 2005 (7 years), and Mac desktops/higher end laptops are currently on a pretty good run.
iMac:
|
Year Released
|
Last OS Supported
|
Years of Support
|
|
1998
|
Panther
|
7
|
|
1999
|
Panther
|
6
|
|
2000
|
Tiger
|
7
|
|
2001
|
Tiger
|
6
|
|
2002
|
Tiger
|
5
|
|
2003
|
Leopard
|
6
|
|
2004
|
Leopard
|
5
|
|
2005
|
Leopard
|
4
|
|
2006
|
Snow Leopard
|
5
|
|
2007
|
?
|
6+
|
|
2008
|
?
|
5+
|
|
2009
|
?
|
?
|
iBook/MacBook (low end laptops):
|
Year Released
|
Last OS Supported (Laptop)
|
Years of Support
|
|
1998
|
Jaguar
|
5
|
|
1999
|
Panther
|
6
|
|
2000
|
Tiger
|
7
|
|
2001
|
Tiger
|
6
|
|
2002
|
Tiger
|
5
|
|
2003
|
Tiger
|
4
|
|
2004
|
Leopard
|
5
|
|
2005
|
Leopard
|
4
|
|
2006
|
Snow Leopard
|
5
|
|
2007
|
Lion
|
5
|
|
2008
|
Lion
|
4
|
|
2009
|
?
|
4+
|
iPhone/iPad:
|
Year Released
|
Device
|
Last OS Supported
|
Years of Support
|
|
2007
|
iPhone
|
3.x
|
3
|
|
2008
|
iPhone 3G
|
4.2.1
|
3.5
|
|
2009
|
iPhone 3GS
|
?
|
3+
|
|
2010
|
iPhone 4
|
?
|
?
|
|
2010
|
iPad
|
5.x
|
2
|
|
2011
|
iPad 2
|
?
|
?
|
|
2011
|
iPhone 4S
|
?
|
?
|
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