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Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by wlesieutre on Friday April 17, 2015 @10:51AM (#9394647)
The biggest problem with Vista for most people was that it was sold on computers without enough RAM. We have a couple in our office (thankfully not used regularly) where it's 1 GB and the integrated GPU borrows a quarter of it for VRAM.

Windows Vista on 768 MB of memory is not a happy thing.

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Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by TeMPOraL on Friday April 17, 2015 @11:00AM (#9394706)
I can imagine it. I guess the experience is sort of like the one I had with a cheap Android smartphone, where the hardware was too weak to handle the OS itself (and if you tried to connect to the Internet, you basically had to pull the battery out because it went totally unresponsive).

I'm not sure why such things happen. Selling a product where the hardware is below minimum reasonable specs for the software it needs should be banned, or something.

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