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You can think of it as unfair, but that's just the way it works, I'm afraid. but I hope that it's perhaps enlightened you as to why more and more software isn't going to be supported on your old devices.

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Spotify are no different to any other technology company, they can't support everyone's old devices for ever, else where would the incentive to upgrade be? We'd all still be using old bricks as mobile phones if we could play Angry Birds on them. Consumers are expected (rightly or wrongly) to go out and replace old equipment with new, and to accept that.ĭavid's given you Spotify's specific reason for this change: 'plans to implement newer and more advanced features' - advanced features that old operating systems just aren't going to support.Īnd as for 'downright discriminatory', what about all those iPhone users that can't download half the apps in Apple's Appstore because their devices don't support them. Computers really aren't designed to last forever, and neither is software for them. You have to face it at some point that if you want to use the latest and greatest software, you'll have to keep up with the reasonably newer technology.

Admittedly they still support Windows XP, which is older than that.

You can't seriously be surprised that Spotify isn't continuing to support 6 year old technology. New features will become reliant on features of modern operating systems, and supporting old OSs becomes a nightmare and adds so much legacy code to any application, which makes the entire application bloated, slower, and much more prone to bugs.īearing in mind that the PowerMac 5 was discontinued in 2006. and you can't go on supporting old software forever. Ultimately, Spotify are going to have their requirements set to version of an Operating System. Couldn't you pose the same question to Apple about why their most recent versions of OS X are not supported on older Macs?

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