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As a bedside YouTube machine, my iPad Air 1 is absolutely fantastic at it. Web browsing stutters like no other, but the YouTube app is still very smooth despite
by kevindong 7y ago
As a bedside YouTube machine, my iPad Air 1 is absolutely fantastic at it. Web browsing stutters like no other, but the YouTube app is still very smooth despite the device's hardware being ~6 years old now. I'm happy with my purchase despite Apple cutting off iOS/iPad OS updates for my device.
As a productivity device, the device is basically useless since app switching is annoyingly slow.
- spiderfarmer 7y agoOnce the OS updates stop, App updates follow shortly after. And once developers stop updating their apps, they become unusable over time, especially when they cannot communicate with server side API. My first iPad lasted about a year after the OS updates stopped.
- kevindong 7y agoOfficially, per the App Store metadata, the YouTube app supports all devices on at least iOS 10 [0]. I personally intend on holding out on upgrading until YouTube is no longer supported. [0]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/youtube-watch-listen-stream/id544007664 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/youtube-watch-listen-stream/id...