Maybe because it's the same year they announced they were dropping support for it?
Time to get a newer piece of gear. This is the problem with software - it doesn't age like a fine wine; it has to be maintained - and that usually means someone is going to have to be paid to do the not so fun work of maintaining and fixing old stuff that is no longer "OoOh tEh sHiNeY!"
Maybe because it's the same year they announced they were dropping support for it?
Time to get a newer piece of gear. This is the problem with software - it doesn't age like a fine wine; it has to be maintained - and that usually means someone is going to have to be paid to do the not so fun work of maintaining and fixing old stuff that is no longer "OoOh tEh sHiNeY!"
I don't think it's so much the paying of programmers for maintenance, as the desire for forced-obsolescence, so they can sell new stuff.