That's the problem, is that they won't work. Discontinued, and eventually they won't work at all on ios11. Think of Apple as a strong proponent of futuristic forward-thinking, and once they see a feature or addition they can add, they almost immediately become an opponent of the predecessor. When Apple embraced usbc, they ditched usb3 without any concern for the detractors of usb-c, knowing that they could make more money if people bought dongles to backward-run their usb devices with them. At the time, barely any devices are converted to usb-c. Usb-c is to Apple as Windows Vista is to Microsoft. I e, both companies gave hardware manufacturers practically no time and no warning, so had no time to get their hardware ready for either of them. The difference between usb-c and Windows Vista is that Microsoft realized their mistake, realized they made Vista demand so much system resources and didn't give hardware manufacturers enough time to get ready. They didn't fault users for going back to xp so soon after getting Shitsta. Windows 7 came out and they learned from their mistake. Sure, the interface wasn't as streamlined as xp and it still required a considerable amount of resources to run compared to xp, but it was at least tolerable. Apple, they won't even admit that they've made a mistake. People can stay on the 2015 macs all they want, I am after all, and Apple will just keep going, and going, and going some more. It won't be long until detractors of usb-c, or the loss of a headphone jack in the iphone7, get figuratively trampled by the new technology, and when it comes to Apple, they will! make you upgrade, eventually. It'll be like the famous xp upgrade pushers, this time telling usb type a users to get with the times, and we can only hope that most accessories would be ready for usb c by then. The point? Apple's 64bit transition is the exact same thing. Apple is destroying the 32bit compatibility layer, and they know damn well that 64bit has a long way to go before it can fully take over 32bit. Care, they do not. So ios11 coming out will mean that a considerable amount of the apps written for it will cease to function, because as is the case with windows, most apps and programs not only are 32bit, but unless we're talking a high-performance video or audio production suite, don't even need! to be 64bit. So it is absurd to make this sort of dick move.