Many older iPads to become obsolete with new iOS 10 - good for AAPL

[Rick-o]

I have an original iPad that's like the Energizer Bunny. I use it almost daily, and it keeps going and going and going...

Sure, the battery only holds about a 4 hour charge now, and I keep waiting for something major to fry out, but so far it still works fine. Not having the latest OS isn't a problem for me as long as it does what I want it to.

I'll buy the latest and greatest when I can't use this thing any longer. I feel I definitely got my moneys worth out of this one.

[Speedy]

Mine is an iPad 3, 128 GBs, Verizon cell. Works like a champ.

[testcase]

In 2014, I bought an iPad Mini. I got a good deal on a 64GB that had Verizon cellular capability mainly because it ran iOS6. I HATED iOS7 and, have been very careful to keep it at iOS6 (I do have an iPad Air running iOS9).

Even running iOS6, it's still a very capable and versatile unit.

[Lew Zealand]

iPad 3 and Mini 2 here. The amazing thing abut the 3 is that it plays games very well for a 4+ year old mobile device, especially as it was the only iPad not to get a CPU speed increase despite the 4x pixel count it had to deal with vs. the 2. The big GPU speed and RAM size increase it did get makes all the difference.

[ka jowct]

I blame all of you for the fact that I caved and ordered a refurb Mini 4.

[chopper]

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God I love you.

[decay]

We have an original iPad (64 GB) that's almost useless when it comes to viewing web pages. Safari and Google apps quit frequently when looking up recipes and such. Tried alternate browsers, still quits. Very frustrating.

I think modern web pages just overwhelm the dated hardware.

"The first-generation iPad features an Apple A4 SoC, which comprises a 1 GHz processor, 256 MB of RAM and a PowerVR SGX535 GPU."

single core processor, single core GPU, 640 KB of L2 cache.

the A5 and A5x greatly improved on those specs.

[NewtonMP2100]

decay wrote:
We have an original iPad (64 GB) that's almost useless when it comes to viewing web pages. Safari and Google apps quit frequently when looking up recipes and such. Tried alternate browsers, still quits. Very frustrating.

I think modern web pages just overwhelm the dated hardware.

"The first-generation iPad features an Apple A4 SoC, which comprises a 1 GHz processor, 256 MB of RAM and a PowerVR SGX535 GPU."

single core processor, single core GPU, 640 KB of L2 cache.

the A5 and A5x greatly improved on those specs.

.....this.....

........becomes limited in use.....so you basically have to upgrade.....

[Filliam H. Muffman]

decay wrote: We have an original iPad (64 GB) that's almost useless when it comes to viewing web pages. Safari and Google apps quit frequently when looking up recipes and such. Tried alternate browsers, still quits. Very frustrating.

Did it work that badly with the original iOS? It's a shame you can't revert to an earlier version. I think it has been obvious that Apple has been all about hardware updates for about the last 10 years. Have you watched the iDiots movie and considered how it relates to what newer versions of iOS do to your iPad?

If Apple makes 32 GB standard on the iPhone SE, it will be an ominous sign for all iOS devices.