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iPads and phones are different beasts, though. I personally have much lower expectations of my ipad, and one of those fairly low expectations is that the brows

iPads and phones are different beasts, though. I personally have much lower expectations of my ipad, and one of those fairly low expectations is that the browser should continue working (with the implied, "and be safe to use" that requires security updates) for as long as the device doesn't physically break. I get that Apple can't be expected to keep developing software for these forever, but I'd be a lot happier if they would transition them to some kind of minimal support where they publish routine OS and security updates for them rather than just abandoning them. They also have this habit of ratcheting up the OS targeting requirements of the SDKs so app builders end up unwittingly building new versions of their apps that exclude old devices unnecessarily. I'm not sure my oldest ipad could install any of its apps again if I uninstalled them, even the ones from Apple.

ryandrake 5y ago
As someone who still has (and uses, offline) his original iPad, I can tell you the App Store is now a barren wasteland on that device. Nobody's app runs on it anymore! So don't delete anything. It's a disgrace that while hardware is starting to vastly outlast software, somehow we have managed to normalize 2-3 years of software support for hardware gizmos and consider 5 years to be generous. And consumers accept this! 5 years is nothing. I have a PC next to me that I bought 20 years ago, and it still works excellently and runs a relatively recent version of Linux. I last updated my phone only because I had to: It was so "old" that it was dangerous to even connect to the Internet. Still worked wonderfully, made calls, but the manufacturer abandoned it (and me) and stopped supplying security updates. So a perfectly functional phone goes into a landfill. This should be totally unacceptable.
- alisonkisk 5y ago

ryandrake 5y ago

As someone who still has (and uses, offline) his original iPad, I can tell you the App Store is now a barren wasteland on that device. Nobody's app runs on it anymore! So don't delete anything. It's a disgrace that while hardware is starting to vastly outlast software, somehow we have managed to normalize 2-3 years of software support for hardware gizmos and consider 5 years to be generous. And consumers accept this! 5 years is nothing. I have a PC next to me that I bought 20 years ago, and it still works excellently and runs a relatively recent version of Linux. I last updated my phone only because I had to: It was so "old" that it was dangerous to even connect to the Internet. Still worked wonderfully, made calls, but the manufacturer abandoned it (and me) and stopped supplying security updates. So a perfectly functional phone goes into a landfill. This should be totally unacceptable.

alisonkisk 5y ago