Yes we should regulate that Apple fully support an iPad Air 2 with 2GB of RAM. My iPad Air 2 with 3GB of RAM barely runs iOS 26.

While we are at, the EU should also force Apple to make macOS 26 run on an old Mac LCII from 1992

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.

So a decade isn’t long enough?

And we do: https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules...

No, we really don’t. Perhaps regulations on recycling, but punishing poorer people who can’t afford an iPad isn’t the answer.

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.

[0] https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules...

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.