Curse Apple and their planned obsolescence /s.

Yes, actually.

I got an iPad 2 found in a drawer that would be perfectly good if the software could at least be easily unlocked so you could only hope to install an alternative OS since they don't want to update it themselves. Or if they allowed installing stuff from outside their store.

But no, the thing runs an ancient WebKit and that's pretty much your only way to run custom code on this stuff.

I can't even create an apple account from this stuff anymore, and apple won't let me create an apple account from any other device I have. Which could possibly help with jail breaking it. And it would already be a pain to be able to create an apple account because they require a name, a birth date, a phone number, an email address... All this to access a store from which nothing would work anyway for an old device like this.

So, fuck them.

And android increasingly becomes like this too.

Meanwhile, you can still run an up to date Linux on a laptop from the 90s.

I commented because my father has an iPhone 8 and vision/cognitive issues. He could very much benefit from this accessibility feature, but he hasn’t been eligible for iOS upgrades for years.