As mobile devices age and newer technologies come into the fold, it becomes increasingly less viable for their makers to continue supporting them. Older hardware components lose ubiquity and become expensive to produce, leading vendors to eventually halt support and repairs. In the case of Apple, products hit vintage / obsolete status five years after manufacture has ceased. With the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus duo now just around the corner, six-year-old iPhone 4 will join the ranks of the obsolete in just over a week’s time.
The iPhone 4’s launch, as you may recall, was somewhat marred by the infamous Antennagate scandal.
