Re:A Declining Trajectory
by smoyer on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @12:23PM
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I stopped buying Apple products when they stopped updating iOS on my iPad after just a couple years. It's now over six years old and is still perfect for many tasks but since it's stuck on iOS 5 and has bugs in its HTML rendering, there are an increasing number of web-sites that crash the browser. If I'm going to replace a tablet every year or two, I'm going to buy sub-$100 Android devices.
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I think that's part of the learning curve. Early devices were just too underpowered. But compare with iPhone 5: released in 2012, and still running the most recent OS (albeit somewhat more slowly). And Apple usually has pretty extensive OS support for their non-handheld hardware too (I'm still rocking a 2010 MBP).