Not sure what you mean by not before but mainly before.. Apple has never discontinued support for a device that it still sells when it announces the next version of iOS.
Nup. Plenty of people on here have issues with A7 devices and iOS 8.
There is a difference between a device slowing as it ages, and loosing support. iOS 6 actually sped up performance on some devices.
I've nevcer come across an App that would not run on my iPad 2.
Not really. Many people don't have the money for new devices. I certainly don't.
Because they're cheap and there is no other iPod Touch.
You've made some poor assumptions there. They won't drop A5 devices as around half of the current iPad users are on an A5 device and they are still selling them. Its as simple as that.
They eventually upgraded or left Apple. The 3GS in 2013 and the 4 in 2014 are no comparison to the number of people who are on A5 devices in 2015. The 3GS was one device not the 5 different A5 devices.
Because you're wrong. They're not obsolete and they're still for sale and in mass use by people who are reasonably happy with them.
Wrong again. Plenty of people on here are happy with their A5 device performance. Macrumours is not a accurate snapshot of all users either. around 60 percent of iPad users on A5 devices would also say that the wider population is happy enough.
Just because you don't understand their actions does not mean that it is not happening. As I said in Quarter 4 of last year the iPad Mini sold more than the iPad Mini 2 and 3.
Yes they are. I've looked at statistics for app developers, and people on iPad Mini 1s and iPad 2s are huge app downloaders.
Downloading an App does' mean you're up to date with everything. I know people who against my advice have gone for the saving and bought an A5 device because the Apple store has told them that its fine.
I think you're fighting a lost battle here. From Apple's past patterns there is a pretty much 99 percent chance of A5 support in iOS 9. Not to mention iOS 9 is an optimisation release as far as we know. Did you not read the huge number of rumours that iOS 9 is getting optimised for A5 devices? If that were false Apple would have leaked information to contradict it.
lol fighting a losing battle? Don't take this as a personal attack, but it seems like you're just saying these statements just to make you feel better about your device or your purchase.
These A5 devices (I'm handling iPad Minis right now) can't even run built in OS apps correctly Messaging, Appstore, Calendar.
Like i mentioned before, here i am with an A5 devices. Crashes on everything, slow, keyboard responsiveness is utterly slow.
Cant even download apps from the App Store, takes about a good 3-5 minutes. (this was after a fresh restore, as iPads are expensive and i try to get them working so customers don't have to dish out $2,000-$10,000 replacing their devices.)
Seriously, i really don't know what YOU do. But you stated you're not a developer, no ones going to optimize it for this mess. Its very limited with its hardware. 512MB of ram is equivalent of having 1.5 GB of ram on a computer today.
Again, i don't know how many A5 devices you have experience with, but i've installed and compiled on over 300.
and again its not just using it couple times i do EXTENSIVE testing. Because customers can't lose orders on here or time. Core data helps of course, but then how stupid does our customer looks when THEIR customers see that their app crashes because of a 200MB (sometimes less) memory limit and they have to open up the app again.
not to mention all this takes considerably long since their A5 devices (app getting killed/crashed, starting up the app, then going back to the screen they were at). Lol don't even mention having multiple apps open on it.
But if saying A5 devices still work and they're good and dandy, then whatever makes you feel better man. Because I go through hell.
A6 or A7 devices are buggy? Yeah i know, obviously, our company develops them. But NONE of them crash because of memory limitations and NOWHERE near as often.
Dude, i can't even do a use a TextDidChange function on a search bar because its just too slow and you can't type when you have a data loaded on to a view.
So i really don't know what world, or what year you're living in.
Im frustrated with these devices, and I'm sure the rest of the world is too.
lol people can't spend $50 dollars more for an iPad Mini 2? Then what the hell are they doing spending $250 for an iPad Mini 1? When obviously its a smarter investment which is going to make them last more years.
edit: still not working, just because it works for your devices or some doesn't mean its good.
majority do not work properly and at no point is it qualified in the business industry, even for its native iOS apps