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Apple Removes Original iPad Mini From Apple Online Store

0815 said:
Everyone is different - for me touch ID is worth the extra money.

I have the iPhone 6+ with touch ID and I use it for everything, so many apps are supporting it now to login/authenticate. For websites that don't have a corresponding app, I have 1password app (which supports touchID) to quickly copy my super long random passwords. I recently swapped phones with a friend (who wanted to try out the 6+) and I had to use a 5c without touchID. Boy did I miss that touchID, I had no idea how much I depend in the mean time on it and how much easer it makes my live. Again, this is not about logging into the phone (pin code is fine for that), but it is about all the apps that support it (and webpages in combination with 1password) so I no longer have to remember my long random passwords that are a pain to type on the mobile keyboard with all the special characters.
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I totally agree with you. I use iPhone 6 Plus as well with Touch ID. Now, with MacID, I can remotely unlock or lock my mac in a single tap. That is really cool, and more important, practical.
My iPad mini 1 was becoming slow, and less responsive. This was my most favourable device just only because iPhone 4 performance was even poor - single core A4.
It seems that A9 could bump up with more cores, and more RAM. Therefore in the future, A8 would become the second A4 - the last processor with only 2 cores and 1 GB of RAM.
 
Andres Cantu said:
Yep, support from early 2011 to late 2016, or 5.5 years. The next chip that probably "won't die" is the A7, even more so because the A8 isn't a big improvement. Probably every odd-numbered A-chip will have similar fates.
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So never buy chips with odd numbers, and then, dedicated devices, whatever they are.
 
kcamfork said:
I recently just bought an iPad mini 3 at Target since it was on sale ($50 off) and I get employee and red card discounts. After tax it ended up at $399 for the 64 gb model. I gave my mini 2 to my sister who desperately was in need of one.

I struggled over the idea of getting a 2 instead of the 3, but I love Touch ID. I like the new gold color. I hate the fact the mini 3 is the same as the 2 internally. Why couldn't they have put an A8 in it? Or I don't know. Something else to differentiate it from the 2. This was a d*** move by Apple. But I still went with the 3 because of the sale. It should have been priced no more than $50 higher than the 2 in the first place but that's just my opinion.

Sigh. I still haven't opened the 3 yet and am still contemplating whether I should just return it or not. Sometimes, as much as I love Apple, I just hate Apple.
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The more you love Apple, the more you will hate Apple.
 
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The A8 is 50% more power efficient than A7( this is a big difference) . fast processor and more power efficient unlike A7 ,that is fast, but not so power efficient like A8
 
bingeciren said:
After the IOS 8, first gen iPad Mini is crippled. We have two of them in our house and an iPad Air to go along. Simple web surfing with the Minis is an excruciating experience whereas the iPad Air is still acceptably fast. I can see why the original Mini is being pulled out. It simply cannot cope with the current software.

Which kind of annoys me as well. This is planned obsolescence and a devious way to push sales. Apple should at least allow us to downgrade to earlier versions of IOS and let us decide if we want to trade speed for features.
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Apple treats software update much harsher than Microsoft, which is about to go the same way as Apple has gone years ago, from Windows 10.
I don't believe they will allow users to downgrade software officially, cause for those companies, latest is ALWAYS the greatest - while we customers would not agree with that.
 
mdridwan47 said:
How come iPad Mini 2 and iPad mini 3 still exist together? $100 bump just for touch ID. That's a massive rip-off to your customer.
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I didn't find it a rip off. However the reason why I bought the mini 3 was because I wanted 128 GBs. Touch ID and gold were bonuses.
 
PowerBook-G5 said:
It's about time. They need to clear out the iPad Mini 2 as well, seeing as it is basically the same thing as the Mini 3, but without Touch ID and a gold color option.
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Nooo...keep the Mini 2. It's ridiculous to pay $100 bucks for a fingerprint reader. I have an iPhone 6 and do not see the benefit to Touch ID. It'd be different if there was a spec bump in the 3. Happy Mini 2 user.
 
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0815 said:
Everyone is different - for me touch ID is worth the extra money.

I have the iPhone 6+ with touch ID and I use it for everything, so many apps are supporting it now to login/authenticate. For websites that don't have a corresponding app, I have 1password app (which supports touchID) to quickly copy my super long random passwords. I recently swapped phones with a friend (who wanted to try out the 6+) and I had to use a 5c without touchID. Boy did I miss that touchID, I had no idea how much I depend in the mean time on it and how much easer it makes my live. Again, this is not about logging into the phone (pin code is fine for that), but it is about all the apps that support it (and webpages in combination with 1password) so I no longer have to remember my long random passwords that are a pain to type on the mobile keyboard with all the special characters.
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When I bought my mini 3 I was more interested in the additional storage space but now that I have it on my 6 plus, mini 3 and air 2 I don't think I could go back to not having it.
 
Shanghaichica said:
I didn't find it a rip off. However the reason why I bought the mini 3 was because I wanted 128 GBs. Touch ID and gold were bonuses.
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You can still find new mini2's with 128gb. I got my mini2 with 64 and unlocked lte for 329.00 from buy.com (the new name is riukian or something like that) new on ebay a couple months ago and they had 128gbs lte also for 390.+. I think right now there are still new ones in the 400's.

I know you are not in the us but neither am I but I have a mail forwarding service as it's still cheaper to order from the us since the prices are so high here.
 
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Andres Cantu said:
I think the general rule is always buy the latest A-chip available.
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I bought A8, but A9 could be much better than A8.
A4 was the last single core chip on iPhone, and A5 turned to dual core.
A6 was the last chip only support 32-bit. A7 was the first chip supporting 64-bit, on iPhone.
A8 could be the last chip with only 1GB of RAM, while A9 could be the first chip with 2GB of ram, on iPhone.
 
Benjamin Frost said:
Poppycock.

They should remove the iPad mini 3, as it is basically the same thing as the iPad mini 2, but costs £100 more. They should never have brought out the iPad mini 3; it embarrasses Apple.

I believe that Steve Jobs would not have released it.
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Steve jobs would never have released a mini tablet period if he stuck to his word.
 
can the original with A5 CPU even function in an acceptable way? I mean I have the Mini 2 and I can definitely see it's lagging a abit and feels slow and tired at times. can't wait for the updated iPad Mini,I realllyyyy hope they increase the Ram on these things,they need it and slimer lighter body is also is a good ide.
 
mdridwan47 said:
How come iPad Mini 2 and iPad mini 3 still exist together? $100 bump just for touch ID. That's a massive rip-off to your customer.
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It sure is,that's why I took advantage of the price cuts for the Mini 2 and bought one.I'm sure many people who knew about this did the same.but I feel for those who payed full price for Mini 3 thinking it's the best iPad mini.
 
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Shirasaki said:
I bought A8, but A9 could be much better than A8.
A4 was the last single core chip on iPhone, and A5 turned to dual core.
A6 was the last chip only support 32-bit. A7 was the first chip supporting 64-bit, on iPhone.
A8 could be the last chip with only 1GB of RAM, while A9 could be the first chip with 2GB of ram, on iPhone.
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It will be much better, because the A8 was better mostly on efficiency.
 
Shirasaki said:
You mean, A8 is an efficiency improvement rather than a performance boost?
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Mostly, since there was only a 25% increase in cpu power versus the usual 100% from every other chip since. Also, there was only a 50% increase in gpu power versus the 600% from the A5 and 100% from the A6 and A7. Which is why I believe from now on they will concentrate on larger increases in cpu and gpu power for odd-numbered A-chips to go along with the "S" releases in iPhones, and efficiency improvements in even-numbered A-chips to compensate for the likely increases in display resolution for the iPhone 7 and 7+ next year.
 
cdm283813 said:
For me it was worth another $100 for the 2GB, triple core processor, laminated display and fingerprint reader of the iPad air 2. 1GB iPad's already have a foot in the grave.
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Apple have never released an iPad with 1GB, as far as I'm aware.

The minimum storage is 16GB. You wouldn't even fit iOS on 1GB, let alone add anything else.
 
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