Originally Posted by RTWFF

Apart from a "Let's bash Apple" motive, the OP is clearly ignorant of how software and hardware evolve over time. It is generally not possible, for example, to run Microsoft's Office 2016 program on a personal computer only capable of running Windows XP. There is nothing evil, no "gotcha" here. It's the way software always evolves, and at some point maintaining backwards hardware compatibility becomes too great an overhead and earlier hardware configurations are no longer supported for later versions of Apps/software

Since software and hardware is evolving rapidly we can expect backwards compatability to have equally short support timelines