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Re:The iPad 1 by taligent on Sunday September 30, 2012 @07:38PM (#4594641)
Why ? The device still works on iOS5 and will still run 99% of the apps available today and over the next few years.

Most developers are still going to be targeting iOS4+ for a while to come.

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Re:The iPad 1 by mfincham on Sunday September 30, 2012 @08:27PM (#4594766)
Eleven good reasons:

  mfincham@desktop:~/Desktop$ grep "Subject:" < ios6.eml
  Subject: APPLE-SA-2012-09-19-1 iOS 6
  mfincham@desktop:~/Desktop$ grep "code execution" < ios6.eml | wc -l
  11
Those bugs will never be fixed for iPad 1 users.

Furthermore, "next few years" seems quite optimistic to me. There's no harm in unlocking these unsupported devices, then people can EITHER run iOS 4/5 and live with the flaws OR run their own code. Nobody loses!

(Note as well that the bugs are things like "loading a web page could result in arbitrary code execution").

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Re:The iPad 1 by achompas on Sunday September 30, 2012 @11:49PM (#4595221)
I agree. Top iOS app developers like Marco are dying to move their apps to iOS 6 (according to their podcasts + blog posts), so I think we can measure app compatibility for the iPad 1 in months, not years.
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