Why iOS 6 Just Turned Your iPad 1G Into a Paperweight • Hacker News Board

Re: Why iOS 6 Just Turned Your iPad 1G Into a Paperweight

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Post by dandrews50 » Tue, Oct 02, 2012, 10:24 PM UTC

josefresco wrote: post #20

I own 1G iPad and I've used it daily since it's launch. With each and every OS update, the device has become slower, and more unstable. Apps like StumbleUpon, Flipboard, and basically any app that uses a "wrapped" browser crashes frequently. App launch times and UI responsiveness are laughable compared to modern tablets and smartphones. To me the problem is not just iOS 6, but rather a slow and consistent degrading o…

I too own a 1st gen iPad. I use it ever day. I don't update. You don't need to....Mine still works fine and I love it. I upgraded my iPhone 4s to OS6 and have had no issues. So my iPad has outdated software and my iPhone has the newest. They talk to each other. Try reverting back to an older OS. Also go in and have an apple geek analyze your iPad. Twice now I've had issues with slow response that were resolved through an apple analysis. Just make sure you have everything backed up.

Re: Why iOS 6 Just Turned Your iPad 1G Into a Paperweight

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Post by dserodio » Tue, Oct 02, 2012, 10:47 PM UTC

padobson wrote: post #44

I switched from Windows to Mac in 2004 when I started college. A year after I graduated, I switched to Linux, and I haven't looked back - and this article illustrates the reason as well as anything. The lifecycle for Apple devices are far shorter than their PC and Android counterparts. When I abandoned my PPC Mac in 2009 and suffered through iTunes withdrawal (read: wrote off the ~$500 in music and movies I had bough…

Android device's lifecycle is worse then iPhones: I replaced my (almost 2 years old) HTC Desire because it was stuck running Android 2.3.4 - thanks to Cyanogenmod, otherwise it would have an even older OS - which means security vulnerabilities like the recently found USSD "remote wipe by visiting a website" are exploitable.

Re: Why iOS 6 Just Turned Your iPad 1G Into a Paperweight

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Post by gte910h » Fri, Oct 05, 2012, 6:57 PM UTC

sirn wrote: post #29

I'm kinda surprised that Apple is breaking the 3 years software support pattern with iPad 1 (Jan 2010) and iOS 6 (Sep 2012); even when they dropped PPC, they still support PPC until Snow Leopard released in 2009, 3 years after the final PPC Mac in 2006, or the original iPhone (June 2007) and iOS 4 (June 2010). As an iPad 1 owner, I do feel a little disappointed, although I don't really feel I miss anything. Most apps…

They made a pretty bad mistake with the 256 ram only. It just can't handle it. (Iphone4 has 512)