There is no greater punishment for a corporation’s shareholders and employees than making a product so good and so reliable it doesn’t need to be replaced for a very long time.
Which is... an odd thing to say because Apple's support is ~7 years nowadays, which is more than most of their competition, and their devices are not EOL by then. And yet they're one of the biggest / wealthiest companies in the world.
I think your comment is incorrect. some companies / shareholders push for planned obsolescence, but I can't accuse Apple of that.
I am not sure if you are being sarcastic here (the tone needed to identify it doesn't work well in the internet).
But yes. My view on the issue is: companies need to support their products with software for a predefined time and after that they should be forec to open source everything needed so people can keep the thing running themselves.
Can you explain? Good rules on long term maintenance and repairability (which are in effect, see [0]) allow for cheaper, secondhand devices to remain viable for said poorer people. Market forces also exist so you can get a tablet or smartphone for less than €100 - and they also fall under said laws so they should work and be supported for a reasonable amount of time.
You think regulations on planned obsolescence punish poorer people? How? As someone who had a friend who would only eat white bread at the end of the month having his old laptop not work would be a freaking emergency.
