Plus, nothing lasts forever,, you can't expect a car manufacture to keep making an 80's car just to keep their customers happy... They don't care..
I hate a lot of car anologies and this one fails.
if I drove an 80's car, no, I would not expect the manufacturer to keep building that same exact car 35 years later.
Just like nobody in this thread thinks that Apple should continue making the AppleTV 1.
Thats not what this is about.
However, There should be nothing that arbitrarily stops me from continueing to drive that 80's car for the rest of my life. If I want to keep it clean, maintained and in working condition, that car, should in thoery continue to run and operate.
to the Analogous Apple TV. Apple is not expected to continue to make the first Apple TV, but they should not be doing anything that outright prevents it from continuing to work.
Back to the Car analogy, That would be like, when I take my 80's car in for an oil change, the Car company removes the seats and tells me "if you want to continue driving, you have to buy a new car".
No Car company does that. there would be uproar.
Do I think in this case Apple is purposely cutting off the ability for ATV1 to be used? no. I think someone probably goofed in some update or managed change on their end, completely disregarding and not taking into account some built in limitation of the first ATV1 and it somehow broke its ability to work. Similar thing I believe they did to Facetime on iOS6 the other day.
it was an Oopsie. But it got compounded and pissed off enough people in the online community because their only solution wasn't to undo the changes and properly fix it, but to tell users "just give us more money and buy something new"
