Expensive today, junk tomorrow.

Slightly misleading title. They are stopping support for older versions of IOS, MacOS, TV OSs and watches. If your device's OS can be upgraded then you'll still be able to use the services. Phones like the iPhone 5 WILL be affected, but that is more than 10 years old. If you're still using an iPhone 5 then you were never a target customer of Apple anyway.

 

Most OS providers drop support after a time. I dislike Apple for a multitude of reasons but this isn't one of them.

It’s typical anti Apple click bate. Since the phones that will no longer get OS system updates are being end if life-Ed at virtually double the lifespan of equivalent android models. Apple typically gets 8 OS updates while android is lucky to get 2~3.

 

So Apple devices on average have updates ranging from 7 years and up, the currently supported phones were released in 2015. So while you may find that they are a bit slow since the CPU is 7 generations old they still work well as phones.