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It doesn't get OS updates though, does it? Awesome tablet if it wasn't for that, battery like new on mine after 10 years.
by bonzini 4y ago
It doesn't get OS updates though, does it? Awesome tablet if it wasn't for that, battery like new on mine after 10 years.
- scarface74 4y agoYou can still use it for Netflix and a few other video apps and you can download the “last compatible version”
- crazygringo 4y agoYeah a lot of the video apps really seem to go out of their way to support old iOS versions in a way that other apps don't. Presumably precisely because a lot of people keep using 10-year-old iPads as a dedicated video player.
- scarface74 4y agoIt was 2019 the last time I tried. But I remember Netflix, Plex, Hulu and Crackle were all able to be installed from a reset iPad 1st gen. I could also download Apple’s iWork suite and download purchased iTunes music and movies and play them.
- wodenokoto 4y agoIt’s true that the use cases for that tablet has shrunk as it has stopped receiving updates and access to the newest apps. And while the interface has become quite sluggish once you open a book or play a video it runs great and the screen is still absolutely amazing. I don’t think a decade old iPad is necessarily trash, but I will concede that a decade old Linux desktop loses fewer of its use cases.