Apple does not patch older devices, so that you will have to throw them away and buy a new one

All that will bring them is the revival of piracy - as it will not be viable to subscribe to dozen of little streaming platforms $20 each.

Problem is the marriage between content creation and content distribution whose purpose is to sidestep free market with exclusivity.

Decouple those, and free market will solve everything - let the best service / content win!

This is too tempting to not be immediately weaponized.
The Eugenics Wars is coming :(

One hundredth of a percent, with some 256 million PC's shipped in 2018, 50% of which probably come with windows 10 (128 million windows 10 PCs), that's probably some 12800 people who bought a new computer in 2018 that lost their files! And there's more win10 users from years before 2018...
Is is really that evil done on large enough scale becomes just statistics?
Fun fact: You are as likely to lose your files in windows 10 upgrade as to die in a skydiving accident!

Microsoft, you know, QA, the thing you thought you don't need anymore? You still need it!

In a world where people in power consider themselves above the law, and issue legal immunity to their corporate henchmen, what would it take for the corporations to be too scared to betray their customers?

Doesn't matter, they will not be able to afford the RAM anyways :)

Nope, thanks to the Intel IME bullshit, not even turning off will help