Well. When masses opt out from newer equipment and companies revenue needs them to use theur services, they just need to revise end of support date.

I myself will not ever use thin clients. If that ever comes to reality, I will just drop my phone off.

I also think that as Google is closing it’s android ecosystem next september and the phones will be more expensive there will emerge need and supply for lighter and open chips to build alternatives to ios and android.

Laptops on the other hand seem to have reasonably long lifespan. My oldest still on use is from 2011.

I bet this will make people to hang on to what thay have for longer and thus force software companies finally create better optimisations and stop making everythung more resource hungry. Alternatively people would just have to drop off the crazy train.