iOS6 and iPad1
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- 3030
Mine works well as video player and reader, mainly Readability and Longform. The only downside - you won't be able to update apps once they require iOS6.
- 23kon0
Still rock an iPad1, works fine for web surfing, I don't use it for gaming, mostly use it as a midi controller for making music.
- mantrakid0
Cut the Rope is the only one I can remember.
- Nathan_Adams0
What apps require iOS6? I'm still running iOS5 on my iPad 1, and I haven't run into any apps that have stopped working. The only app I can't use is iPhoto, but that's never been able to run on iPad 1, latest OS or not.
- ernexbcn0
First gen iPads on eBay are between 200 and 300 bucks I just looked, Apple buys it from you at about 100 bucks for recycling.
- ernexbcn0
It does suck, but the apps you are using now you can keep and the thing does e-mail and web browsing too, it's not like it stopped working the day Apple released iOS 6.
Right?
- mantrakid0
As BattleAxe mentioned, and I think the real point is that apps you purchased to work on iOS4/5 are now updating to require iOS6.. like they're not compatible. THere are a handful of apps on my wife's iPad 1 that no longer work because she is unable to update to iOS6. Is that the developers fault, or Apples, i donno?
- ETM0
The only reason I am even considering upgrading from iPad 2 is to have a retina display for in-hand testing of projects. Beyond that, I have no issues with my iPad 2 for personal use.
- nb0
- formed0
I can't even update my iPod Touch. It won't install the latest and now it is blocking Amazon's Kindle app (that worked perfectly well with all my books until I tried to sync)
- moldero0
my ipad 1 has been slow as shit since the last update, even if i could update to iOS6 i wouldnt, shit can barely handle iOS5.
- BattleAxe0
I have iPad 1 , and it is not so much about features in iOS6 that will be missed , it is the apps that will run on iOS 6 only that you will no longer have access too.
- stoplying0
I just dropped and cracked my screen on my iPad 1. I found a place that replaced the glass for $125 and it's as good as new.
Are there better and newer iPads? Of course. But I'm okay with the (newly glassed) iPad 1. Re$i$t the need to upgrade every 365 day$.
- rosem0
When you bought the iPad 1, were you promised iOS 6?
- animatedgif0
I mean really are we going to be expected to buy new tablets every 2 years? That makes them look like horrible value for money.
Even worse when a brand new tablet doesn't seem to be able to handle the web smoothly out of the box anyway. How ropey is that gonna be running in 2 years.
- Chill out, you don't have to buy a tablet. The one you have is as good as when you bought it, even better with updates.raf
- My gf has been using her first-gen iPhone for 4 years, looks and works perfect, even battery's still good.raf
- Something fishy about that vid. The Nexus does load content like that sometimes, but once loaded, it doesn't keep doing it.ETM
- haha both machines are showing "microsoft surface" at first!mekk
- animatedgif0
@raf actually the main issue is the low power processor + the evolving web.
Anyone who has used an iPhone 3G will have seen Google search get slower and slower as mobile JS engines got better. Google were only coding their search system for the latest JS engines and processors.
Turn Javascript off and navigate the web on a 3G, ran pretty damn fast! turn JS back on... barely any site would load within 2 minutes and many wouldn't work at all without it, such as Google.
- Might be less of a problem as things progress, but it was painful for a whileanimatedgif
- I know it is a tech issue, iPad 2 is very noticeably faster than #1raf