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I compared iPad 1 because I had it. The story of iPad 2 is not much different. When the 4 came out it was faster, had more RAM, much better screen, etc. Every p
by close04 7y ago
I compared iPad 1 because I had it. The story of iPad 2 is not much different. When the 4 came out it was faster, had more RAM, much better screen, etc. Every product reaches a stage where improvements stop being so obvious year over year and the upgrade seems less and less justified. What used to be a 2-3 year upgrade cycle can now easily be a 5+ year one.
- scarface74 7y agoThe difference being that the iPad 1 was already underpowered when it was released compared to its contemporary. The iPad needed more RAM than the iPhone 4 that was being designed at the same time but had less. The iPad 4 was better than the iPad 2 but the iPad 2 was at least using the best SOC they had at the time. The iPad 2 was sold from 2011-2014. It actually got a bug fix update about 3 or 4 months ago. By 2011 when iOS 5 came out, the original iPad was crashing because of too little memory.
- close04 7y agoThis still supports what I wrote originally: there was a time when a 1 or 2 year gap brought massive improvements. Not anymore. Now it takes 4, 5, or more. Which is why people bought more often then, and less often now. Same thing happened to smartphones. Explosive evolution at the beginning and a subsequent slowdown when the generation gap started being so small that you can go more time between upgrades.