If I had just bought Apple’s most premium headphones, and they didn’t get the latest features, I’d be very unhappy.
ONE OF THE benefits of Apple producing its own chips, and of a general plateauing of Intel chip improvements in Macs even before the Apple switch, over the last few years has been that we didn’t get much of a “left behind” syndrome when new OS updates were released. In the days of OS X, it wasn’t uncommon for some of the new features of an update to be locked away if your Mac was too old. But we got to a point where that wasn’t so much of an issue, and effectively any new feature coming to Mac or iPhone especially would be available on anything the software runs on.