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> You never tried browsing modern websites on older iOS devices have you? Is it good or bad? Please enlighten us.
by jonny_eh 4y ago
> You never tried browsing modern websites on older iOS devices have you?
Is it good or bad? Please enlighten us.
- juniperplant 4y agoWell, on my iPad mini 1st gen the web is unusably slow.
- kitsunesoba 4y agoYeah even if there were modern browsers for earlier iPads and iPhones, they wouldn’t be pleasant to use because modern mountains-of-JavaScript websites are too much for the ARM CPUs in those devices to handle. The average Core 2 Duo PC handily outstrips early tablets and smartphones in terms of raw power, which is why they can manage the modern web better — in comparison browsing the web on e.g. an early iPad is like doing the same on a PC from the era of Pentium 3’s and 4’s and PPC G3s and G4s.
- scarface74 4y agoSafari crashed regularly on an iPad 1st gen by 2012 with iOS 5.