Imaging hardware just converts an image into a bitstream in a particular format. Those formats and communications protocols change all the time, and those do not fundamentally alter the task at hand. Canon won't produce new drivers for old equipmen...
Ok. Add Microsoft to my list. They do it too. Notice that companies waving the flag of environmentalism because they "recycle" are still requiring me to go buy another one. And my old scanner that still functions perfectly still has to be shredde...
This is reaching epidemic proportions, and is a new way for tech companies to generate revenue. They allow software updates to obsolete their products. if you don't buy the latest product, you're screwed. It's actually an incentive to shaft peopl...