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Post by ja27 »

anextio wrote: post #92
wavephorm wrote: post #62

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Oops, I've actually never used it. So I guess Siri should be able to work on iPad 1 also. Anything Apple says about the hardware being incapable of using Siri sounds is probably a load of their typical bullshit.

They're still supporting the iPhone 3GS, aren't they? If they had a viable reason to put resources into the iPad 1 and have it meet their performance and usability requirements, they would have.

They're still selling the iPhone 3GS.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iph...

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Post by ja27 »

xol wrote: post #108
blutonium wrote: post #7

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First generation hardware is difficult to support. They dropped the original iPhone in iOS 3.

That almost gave me an aneurysm at the time - I had a first generation iPod touch, and it quickly became less useful app-wise. But long term it was still probably the right move, iOS 3 ran slowly on the first gen touch.

And iOS 6 dropped the third generation iPod Touch. Even iOS 4 is noticably laggy on mine.

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Post by DeepDuh »

hrbrtglm wrote: post #148
DeepDuh wrote: post #123

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Can't you just blacklist on your provider?

No, I can't ! There's no way a provider could help you block unwanted imessages sender or unwanted facetime caller anyway. What is your provider who let you do that for free on behalf of apple products ?

well ok, with imessage it doesn't work, but you also talked about phone calls. I agree, blacklisting should be there.

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Post by ChuckMcM »

dirtyaura wrote: post #135
ChuckMcM wrote: post #57

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Sort of FYI, Google's original effort at providing their own database for map information was that Navtec would not license them the right to use map data for turn-by-turn navigation. It was really quite amazing to see all of the constraints that were put on map data (it was so much easier for Trimble, the original company, to exploit their map database than to try to compete in the gadget space). I don't doubt that…

Sort of FYI, Google's original effort at providing their own database for map information was that Navtec would not license them the right to use map data for turn-by-turn navigation. Of course Navteq would allow them to use map data for turn-by-turn navigation, but Google didn't want to pay the price they were asking for license fees. Earlier Navteq and Tele Atlas had a duopoli in worldwide map data - no-one else ha…

Actually in that particular case, according to what the employees were told at one of the TGIF events, previous deals Navtec had made with navigation device vendors precluded them from licensing Google the turn by turn rights at any price.

Now that may have been a misstatement, but it was presented as a large part of the rationale for the whole project which encompassed getting rights to satellites, driving data, broadcast source locations, etc etc. Things like "we bought Keyhole and got great satellite imagery but we're forbidden from image processing that imagery into a map, so we bought a satellite and took our own damn pictures." It played well with the whole 'think bigger than that' mantra that Larry Page embodied.

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Post by alanh »

lotu wrote: post #126
alanh wrote: post #80

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A significant number of apps require the latest version of the OS. The utility really does drop off if you are a major OS version or two behind. Trash? Maybe not, but definitely worth much, much less. I agree that 2.5 years is far too soon to stop updating the iPad’s OS.

Remember how computer were last decade, and you need to buy a new one every year and a half? Well that's tablets and smartphones now.

No, it was never “every year and a half”! It was more like like every two years for hardcore gamers and at least 3 years for real people.

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Post by UnHappy »

wavephorm wrote: post #2

iOS 6 is not compatible with: iPad 1 Damnit, did I just have an aneurism? Seriously, the iPad 1 isn't old (or doesn't feel old to me), and it came out around the same time as the iPod touch 4th generation, which is supported. I'm really getting sick of this "throw-away hardware" culture that Apple is enforcing.

Maybe Apple should warn people that when they shell out $600.00 for an Ipad that in about 2 years Apple will no longer support it with their new software. I was looking to buy an Apple laptop. Not now. Not EVER! Why would I? will Apple refuse to support that with new software in 2 years? What a JOKE. I did not know that my iPad would be treated by Apple like a disposable throw away item like a cardboard camera. My first purchase of an Apple product will be my last. I took a bite of the apple and all I got was a worm. Steve Jobs told us it was a magical device. I feel it was more of a rotten apple

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Post by easp »

wavephorm wrote: post #2

iOS 6 is not compatible with: iPad 1 Damnit, did I just have an aneurism? Seriously, the iPad 1 isn't old (or doesn't feel old to me), and it came out around the same time as the iPod touch 4th generation, which is supported. I'm really getting sick of this "throw-away hardware" culture that Apple is enforcing.

It's kind of lame, but it was clear within weeks after launch that the original iPad was gimped for RAM. Apple manged to make it bearable for a while, but iOS 5 on the original iPad has always been hitchy with a crashy Mobile Safari, so it's no surprise that iOS isn't going to be supported.

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Post by gnaffle »

simonh wrote: post #144
gnaffle wrote: post #74

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I know, but that's really no excuse. I don't have a problem with Apple dropping support for old hardware, but this feels a little forced on a device that's only two years old. Of course, forced obsolescence is a fact of life with commercial, proprietary products, and of course you're not entitled to software updates apart from bugfixes. But it's very different world compared to the PC world where companies like Micro…

So what should they do about the memory limitations on old devices. Just not add more features to the OS, so it still works on the older hardware?

No, they could add features, but leave out those features on older devices just like they have done previously with each new iOS release.

Many if not most of the new features in iOS 6 doesn't require more processing power.

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