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I don't agree with this at all. Since the iOS 9 update my iPad 2 is a miserable piece of trash: everything is sluggish beyond saving, and the rendering has bee
by leppr 9y ago
I don't agree with this at all.
Since the iOS 9 update my iPad 2 is a miserable piece of trash: everything is sluggish beyond saving, and the rendering has been butchered on those low dpi devices (the old iOS designs looked crisper).
EDIT: Fix iOS version, whichever one ditched skeumorphism.
- Longhanks 9y agoiPad 2 never received iOS 10.
- givinguflac 9y agoYou'd be just as upset if they didn't upgrade to the later iOS versions either. Gotta drop support somewhere; that hardware is getting old.
- leppr 9y agoNot saying the contrary, just disagreeing with the "old iPads haven't been deprecated" opinion. iOS 9 was released in 2015, so 4 years after the iPad 2 release. I'd expect a $600 device to last a bit longer than that, and I'm sure the biggest IT firm in the world could easily create custom builds for their older devices: optimise font-rendering, properly convert assets to low-res versions, and disable (or degrade) the animations and transparency. If the internal OS architecture is sensible, these 3 adaptations shouldn't be that much work and shouldn't cause any bugs.