Apple drops old hardware when they have a good reason to do so. They decided 64-bit x86 was the future so they relatively quickly dropped PowerPC and 32-bit x86. Since then, they haven&#x27;t been dropping old Macs at all.<p>Their approach to hardware support on iOS has been similar: dropping devices with too little RAM or really wimpy CPUs&#x2F;GPUs but otherwise extending it as far back as possible (some say too far back given the performance on these older devices).