It doesn&#x27;t look that way to me at all. The latest Mac OS X runs on computers as old as 2007. Apple hasn&#x27;t dropped <i>any</i> hardware support for the last two OS revisions.<p>I agree that it&#x27;s pretty dumb that you can&#x27;t locally sync music on a new iPhone without newer hardware. It connects over USB, so make it available as a USB mass storage device and be done with it! But that&#x27;s separate from supporting newer OSes on older hardware, which Apple is pretty decent at.