I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later

Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by reaperducer on Monday January 27, 2020 @01:45PM (#22162436)

I'm in the same boat with my launch day iPad. It still works great for e-mail, but pretty much every other app is useless now. So I just keep it by the couch in case I want to look at e-mail.

That said, it's a 10-year-old machine. I don't have any desktop or laptop computers left that are good for anything other than e-mail, either.

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Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by irongeek on Monday January 27, 2020 @03:31PM (#22163464)

My late 2011 Macbook Pro is what I am using to reply to this comment. I can even do some light gaming on this still if I so choose. Plenty fast for anything web(including streaming video), coding and certainly email. I actually cannot bring myself to buy anything new because the mild bump I might get will hardly be worth what I have to pay to get that bump.

The difference with desktop operating systems are that applications almost always work for many, many releases. This does not seem to be the case with iOS.

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Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by jcranmer on Monday January 27, 2020 @02:12PM (#22162692)

My main desktop isn't quite 10 years old (I got it in 2013), but it works quite well for rather more intensive uses such software development and playing games, despite not upgrading anything other than the hard drives. Admittedly, it was a high-end system when I bought it.

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Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by dan-robertson on Monday January 27, 2020 @02:27PM (#22162822)

I think it’s a little unfair to compare a 10 year old desktop today with a 10 year old ipad today because the rate of progress for desktops has been much lower (and many programs are designed to work on less powerful laptops).

Instead consider that a 10 year old laptop in 2010 would be basically useless and massively heavy, or a 10 year old desktop in eg 2007.

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Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by jcranmer on Monday January 27, 2020 @02:31PM (#22162856)

GP did say that "desktop or laptop computer" didn't last 10 years either. I agree that desktops are going to age better than any other segment of computers.

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Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by rstupek on Monday January 27, 2020 @02:25PM (#22162801)

Desktop performance hasn't progressed as rapidly in the last 10 years (relative to each successive generation of desktop) in comparison to iPad's which seem to have doubled in speed each successive generation.

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Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by llampx on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @10:25AM (#22170203)

The comparison isn't about hardware speed though, its about software versions. I had an iPad as well. Then successive updates which made it slower and slower, and eventually older software stopped working.

Compare to Android, where I can still run many modern apps on old hardware with Android 2.3, or at least could at the time my iPad was almost completely obsoleted and I sold it off.

Its like if you were forced to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista on your 512MB laptop - which could handle Windows XP just fine but couldn't handle Vista, even though yes Vista came with many new features.

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Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by scarface74 on Monday January 27, 2020 @11:42PM (#22166525)

Until early last year, my Plex server was a circa 2009, Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz Dell laptop with 8GB of RAM and a gigabit Ethernet port. It was running Windows 10.

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Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by scarface74 on Monday January 27, 2020 @11:39PM (#22166507)

As of last year, the last time I used my first gen iPad, Netflix, Hulu, Plex and Crackle still worked.

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