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>> 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
by 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 agoiPads 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 agoThere 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.