Don’t Worry About the End | Win Source

1. Don’t Worry About the End Almost every market needs to bring updates to its products sooner or later. When a new and improved version hits the market, it is not always possible to consider backward compatibility that will run across multiple old versions. As such, some products are sold to customers stating that, from the company’s point of view, it is at the end of its useful life and that the company will soon cease to manufacture it, market it and support it. The company, being customer oriented, will offer product support for a limited period that is based on the average time that a customer might use that kind of product. The user might need that product to be maintained, or if it has become beyond repair, to be replaced. Most people buy electronic components with much care, knowing that the component might be at or past its EOL period. As such, that replacement might be difficult to acquire. The effort to find an obsolete components distributor for such obsolete electronic components is not one that many are willing to take. The silver lining to this dark EOL cloud for components is that even the marketing trends change with time and many distributors like Win Source now have an electronic components shop online. A quick search on the Internet is enough to find IC stores and IC component suppliers dedicated to assisting our customers to quickly and accurately find EOL or hard-to-find parts, with competitive prices. The product may be near its end for the vendor, but the customer no longer needs to worry about that end.