Petition for Continuity / Hands off on WIFI

Hi everyone, and Apple.
You guys had 3 keynotes in the past 1/2 year. You show of with the continuity, hands off function. You had a lot of time to let people know you are not planing to support any older mac (pre 2012) for this function, but you didn't even mentioned it at all.
It's understandable this functions requires Bluetooth 4.0 for some reason. Now I have a question for you: any chance to:
use a bluetooth dongle to activate it on an older system?
if not:
Will you consider to introduce the WiFi version of this features? If you read it and have a same thoughts please comment it so Apple can hear us!!!
Really hope for a reasonable solution for everyone who has an older system. The idea to buy a new mac would drive a big chunk of people to back to PC since it's cheaper..... so please do not come with that. That's not acceptable from the worlds best company.

Many thanks, I didn't mean to do something bad... How can I remove this thread? (Don't want to get into a trouble! )

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