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Flip4Bytes Annnd? The phone is still working, and will continue to work just fine for the next few years.. You should be glad this happened actually, because now you get to experience the awesome 10.2 update which you would have had to wait months for otherwise. This is a time to be excited, not angry [;
But really, the phone still works just fine and will keep working fine even if T-Mobile doesn't promote it in their store.
Unfortunately, I don't share your optimism. When carriers don't have confidence in a device because of poor sales, it does mean "years", it likely means far less than that. When a major carrier like T-mobile is seeing such dismal sales of a particular product that it is pulling them off the shelves (thereby making it impossible for any potential customer to try/touch the product before buying it), they've basically said that demand is so low that they can't continue to waste time, real estate and support for a product no one wants.
The only question, then, becomes who next? AT&T? Verizon? Or, in Canada, Rogers? Bell? Telus? I'm a T-mobile customer and from what I've seen, T-mobile has shown higher growth rates among post-paid subscribers for the past couple of quarters than the other U.S. carriers. If a carrier in growth mode sees your products as not being worth it, then it won't take "years".