You're making me buy a new phone

Re:You're making me buy a new phone by wiredfool on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @07:48AM (#35339224)

Ipad Mini2 owner here.

Twitter doesn't work. Their app now shows _maybe_ 5% of tweets that my logged in user does. Safari is slow as crap on the website.

Google voice still rings and shows notifications, but can't function because no updates are available and something in the api is broken.

A non-zero number of sites show no-css warnings or just crash because it's an old JS interpreter. (HN though -- it's still rocking the 2000 era web design)

Apps that access the network are slowly dying. Though kindle and mail still work, and that's about all I use it for now.

This was a $300 device 8 years ago, and probably has my best $/usage of any tech I've ever had. The replacement is an 800eur ipad, because it's now effectively a pro model rather than the cheap one, and I'm not sure I can justify that.

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Re:You're making me buy a new phone by dmix on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:39AM (#35339937)

FWIW the $600 iPad Air is a wonderful device. It’s light, extremely fast, and the battery lasts forever compared to my older iPad and Samsung tablets.

There’s a lot to be said about software longevity but the gains made by Apple’s newer CPU/SOCs is really impressive and noticeable day-to-day.

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Re:You're making me buy a new phone by wiredfool on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:44AM (#35340008)

The mini is the _right_ size for me, and cell is a requirement. Default sized iPads look comically large, without even considering the pros.

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Re:You're making me buy a new phone by lotsofpulp on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @07:56AM (#35339316)

> The replacement is an 800eur ipad, because it's now effectively a pro model rather than the cheap one, and I'm not sure I can justify that.

I find this hard to believe. A $300 iPad mini 2 from 2015 is comparable in specs to an 800 Euro 2023 iPad Pro?

Edit: Actually, you can compare them directly on Apple’s website:

https://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/?modelList=ipad-mini-2,ip...

Even the current iPad mini (6th gen) blows the iPad mini 2 out of the water.

https://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/?modelList=ipad-mini-2,ip...

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Re:You're making me buy a new phone by jclardy on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:02AM (#35339400)

That's because it isn't true, the replacement is the $599 iPad Mini 6 which is in a completely different class of tablet. Even the $300 iPad would outclass it by a mile.

Mini 6 has regularly been on sale for $499 as well since it is now long in the tooth already.

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Re:You're making me buy a new phone by wiredfool on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:49AM (#35340067)

Size, not specs.

If I want a mini with cell, it's 800 eur, which might be 600 moneys where you live, but VAT is included here.

Actually, 64GB mini with Wifi+Cellular is 869 eur in Ireland, just checked there. When I bought my original mini, it was the cheapest new iOS device with a cell radio.

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Re:You're making me buy a new phone by hx833001 on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:10AM (#35340446)

The original iPad mini 2 with cellular was $529 when introduced ten years ago, not $300. The current iPad mini with cellular was $649 when introduced one and a half years ago. Both of those numbers are the actual US Dollar prices for both products. Your pricing information is not correct.

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Re:You're making me buy a new phone by wiredfool on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:20AM (#35340602)

$349, plus tax of 30.36, on April 7, 2015.

Still have the invoice.

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Re:You're making me buy a new phone by lotsofpulp on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:46AM (#35340978)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad_Mini_2

>Introductory price

>Wi-Fi: 16 GB: $399, 32 GB: $499, 64 GB: $599, 128 GB: $699

>Wi-Fi + Cellular: 16 GB: $529, 32 GB: $629, 64 GB: $729, 128 GB: $829

I have a Jan 7, 2015 receipt from Apple for a 16GB Wifi only iPad mini for $300, and that was for the first version of iPad mini.

Perhaps you bought it with a special promotional price.

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Re:You're making me buy a new phone by wiredfool on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:04AM (#35341288)

It was probably closing out -- It was towards its end of active life.

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