> I don't see a good reason [...] to upgrade it much

Imagine the world of pain when the time comes to upgrade the software to Ubuntu 37.04.

Well I look at it from the relativistic perspective. See, AIX or HPUX are frozen in time and there is no temptation whatsoever within those two environments.

Being stuck in Ubuntu 14.04 you can actually take a look out the window and see what you are missing by being stuck in the past. It hurts.

> It only affects new devices, they don't pull the existing licenses.

That actually changes the whole gist.

True. Still not exactly feature removed after purchase.

Also this was regulatory pressure which is more like act of god in legalese while removal of h265 is more like we decided to screw customers.

If and only if they indeed removed the feature after purchase.

The example you provided is exactly the opposite:

> no longer be available on newly purchased Apple Watch ... > customers who purchase the watches in the U.S. will still be able to see Apple's Blood Oxygen app