I think the planned obsolescence thing may not have any legs. My mother has a 9 year old Apple SoC in her pocket which is still getting software updates...
As for all the other things the claims are usable in both directions.
The fact that 'they' can deactivate anything in an item you own is dystopian in its own right. In general, items need to be usable even after their manufacturer goes out of business and stops supporting them, which seems to be less and less often the case.
People used to laugh at Stallman, but increasingly it seems like he was actually a prophet of what's to come.
Planned obsolescence is extremely prevalent (just see Apple's view on it - http://www.geek.com/apple/phil-schiller-thinks-its-sad-that-...), and this intentional bricking is a close and sinister cousin. Before the idea of regularly replacing your hardware was so widespread, companies needed to at least pay lip service to the idea of continuing support. Now that it's become the status quo to buy a new phone every two years, it looks like some are starting to conclude that the savings in support costs are worth the PR hit.
How does that viewpoint square with
1) Deliberately slowed-down hardware (claimed concern about "older device batteries" don't wash with reality either...)
2) Planned obsolescence in the forms of
A) Removing/altering physical ports, preferring proprietary "standards" to actual standards
B) Irreversible OS upgrades, Internet Recovery Mode notwithstanding, and the deliberately hobbled functionality "older" hardware endures, see leaked employee info on deliberate unnecessary version flags purpose built into software, etc.
I think that's because no one is suggesting that things shouldn't ever come to end of life. Ford stopped making the Model T.
If you already bought them, Microsoft Money, Encarta, Flight Sim, SBS, Works etc etc should all keep working. If you still have the CD you can probably install just fine, and keep on using them (if it's still meaningful). I'm sure plenty do just that, and perhaps some will for decades. Just no more new versions are coming. Sure MSN Messenger and other online offerings have been hard stopped.
For most of your list, no one hit what's effectively a remote kill switch, and stopped them working for everyone at the same moment. That's what killing an API does for an internet service, or hardware device dependent on that service. On such and such date $thing will cease working. Google does that all the time, hardware and software. So much that they got themselves a reputation for it.
Didn't wear out, die of old age, become obsolete, but they reached out and killed. It's qualitatively different.
Built-in modems aren't dead, they are still on a surprisingly number of laptops.
He killed OS 9 so he could sell OS X. That's like saying Microsoft killed Win95. That's planned obsolescence.
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