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This is a dumb article. Sales growth has slowed because iPads are computers and don't have a 2 year repurchase cycle. There are only so many people out there wh

This is a dumb article. Sales growth has slowed because iPads are computers and don't have a 2 year repurchase cycle. There are only so many people out there who don't own a tablet of some kind and an iPad will last a lot longer than an iPhone. The iPad 2 is still a very good tablet for a lot of people. Not a huge reason to upgrade until it breaks. Also, nerds might not love it, but my wife adores her Kindle Fire HD and uses it all the time. For recipes, surfing the web, and watching videos, that is all she needs.

AmVess 12y ago
I agree that the article is dumb. Apple sells two Ipads a second every second of every day of the year, which tells me a lot of people know exactly what an iPad is good for.
slantyyz 12y ago
>> iPads are computers and don't have a 2 year repurchase cycle If you regularly update to the latest OS release, you will barely get past the second year. In my experience, "the final major version OS to run on any iOS device" is generally annoyingly slow. It might be better these days, but it wasn't the case with my original iPad, iPhone 3G and 4. I'm glad I told my wife not to update her 4S to 8 (i.e., the final major version that will be available for the 4S), because updating to 7 had already noticeably slowed down her phone.
- mikeash 12y ago
  iPads are different, because Apple refuses to retire the iPad 2. Officially they don't sell it anymore, but they still sell the original iPad mini, which is just an iPad 2 with a smaller screen. iOS 8 needs to work well on an iPad 2 in a way that iOS 8 doesn't need to work well on an iPhone 4S.
- programminggeek 12y ago
  There are literally millions of computers happily running Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, old versions of OS X, Android 2.x, and 2+ year old releases of Linux. For what a lot of people do on computers, old software still works just fine. Yes, you don't get all the latest updates, but millions of people don't care at all. Certainly millions don't care enough to spend money to upgrade. More than that, a lot of people don't really notice the difference.

AmVess 12y ago

I agree that the article is dumb. Apple sells two Ipads a second every second of every day of the year, which tells me a lot of people know exactly what an iPad is good for.

slantyyz 12y ago

>> iPads are computers and don't have a 2 year repurchase cycle If you regularly update to the latest OS release, you will barely get past the second year. In my experience, "the final major version OS to run on any iOS device" is generally annoyingly slow. It might be better these days, but it wasn't the case with my original iPad, iPhone 3G and 4. I'm glad I told my wife not to update her 4S to 8 (i.e., the final major version that will be available for the 4S), because updating to 7 had already noticeably slowed down her phone.

mikeash 12y ago
iPads are different, because Apple refuses to retire the iPad 2. Officially they don't sell it anymore, but they still sell the original iPad mini, which is just an iPad 2 with a smaller screen. iOS 8 needs to work well on an iPad 2 in a way that iOS 8 doesn't need to work well on an iPhone 4S.
programminggeek 12y ago
There are literally millions of computers happily running Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, old versions of OS X, Android 2.x, and 2+ year old releases of Linux. For what a lot of people do on computers, old software still works just fine. Yes, you don't get all the latest updates, but millions of people don't care at all. Certainly millions don't care enough to spend money to upgrade. More than that, a lot of people don't really notice the difference.