Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later
by wffurr on Monday January 27, 2020 @02:01PM
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I got six years of updates for my iPad Air, and it still works fine, albeit a little slowly and some apps are crashy now. It's hardly e-waste after 1-2 years.
There's a perfectly adequate online guide for replacing the battery yourself: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPad+Air+Wi-Fi+Battery+Replacem... Or you can pay Apple or any competent repair shop to do it for you. I haven't yet needed to replace my battery, even after six years.
There's plenty of programming environments for the iPad, including a web browser to run all the awesome web software out there.
Did it come with a BASIC interpreter preinstalled? No, but I'm OK with that.
There's a perfectly adequate online guide for replacing the battery yourself: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPad+Air+Wi-Fi+Battery+Replacem... Or you can pay Apple or any competent repair shop to do it for you. I haven't yet needed to replace my battery, even after six years.
There's plenty of programming environments for the iPad, including a web browser to run all the awesome web software out there.
Did it come with a BASIC interpreter preinstalled? No, but I'm OK with that.