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My first gen ipad still works and the apps on it mostly work.
by richardjam73 3y ago
My first gen ipad still works and the apps on it mostly work.
- captn3m0 3y agoYou had to have installed those apps back then. You can’t install old versions of apps if now, so you’re stuck with the apps you installed then. (I use a second Gen iPad).
- not_your_vase 3y agoWhat captn3m0 said + try to open Twitter in Safari... (okay, one could argue that it is 50% forced obsolescence from Apple, and 50% utter garbage frontend work from Twitter, made by "professional" "software" "engineers")
- richardjam73 3y agoIt is unable due to hardware limitations. Being able to run Linux won't help. It only has 256MB of RAM and a very slow processor.
- not_your_vase 3y agoI don't know why everyone is fixated on running Linux on iPad, what's the problem with the idea of not trashing completely iOS? Opening iPad's bootloader would only result in a bunch of buggy distros with custom 6 years old kernels, which only support 70% of the hw, while having 10% of the original battery life. On a different note, my e-waste iPad 4 has 1GB of RAM, it still can't open about 50% of the websites anymore, and I can't install a calculator on it anymore - while some capabilities are restricted by hw, most of the restrictions are from sw...