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Re:Many Android bugs with 500+ stars closed as obsolete on D... by digisign on Saturday December 27, 2014 @07:29PM (#8804584)
My ipad 2 is running ios 8.1 well and i'm posting with it right now.
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Re:Many Android bugs with 500+ stars closed as obsolete on D... by hubot on Saturday December 27, 2014 @07:48PM (#8804635)
iPad 2 is one beast device, live through so many updates and is actually very usable.
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Re:Many Android bugs with 500+ stars closed as obsolete on D... by MBCook on Saturday December 27, 2014 @08:44PM (#8804785)
It's showing it's age.

The real problem is they're still selling it brand new (in the form of the non-retina Mini) and with Apple's policy of supporting devices for 2 or 3 years that means the device will get six years of updates, even though it's already aging badly at this point.

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