10 years ago is 2011. What car in 2011 was still using discs for sat nav?
Maybe 15 years ago, sure. I had a 2004 BMW 330Ci with DVD-based maps which lost support in 2015. Not a bad run.
My 2009 BMW 335i uses its hard disk for nav data. I received an update last year for its mapping data (hopefully will receive an update this year as well). Indeed I still receive live RTTI traffic updates as well. BMW does tend to support its cars a lot longer, and is way more advanced than other manufacturers, though. My 911 doesn’t get map updates any more, and it’s also a 2009.
Conversely, the built-in telematics don’t work, as they’re 2G based. I can’t send directions from my iPhone to my car, for example. Doesn’t work because the supporting infrastructure literally no longer exists.
This works for iOS devices too. Your built-in apps still function fine - Clock, Messages, Mail, even Maps. But stuff which requires a server to relay data
might cease to work as the system’s firmware becomes more obsolete. For example, my iPad 2 running iOS 6 serves Maps data fine, but Safari has issues rendering pages and Netflix hasn’t worked in years. My iPhone 3G running 3.1.3 still loads Google Maps, but Safari is limited to a handful of text-only websites (
m.cnn.com, for example), and Weather / Stocks no longer work.
Maintaining compatibility with obsolete firmware versions is a major attack vector, as later OS releases bring security improvements. For videos, you can still load .mp4 files from iTunes / Finder onto the local device. That works even with an iPod Classic...
