Sure would be nice if Apple would release a version of iOS 9 that would run as well on my iPad3 as iOS 6 once did. My poor 2012 iPad has slowed to a crawl because of the OS. It's happened slowly so it was almost unnoticeable, but it's very noticeable now that my daughter is using the iPad for school. She comes to me in tears sometimes over how slow it is to load sites in Safari. It never was like this under iOS 6. But to go back means to lose app compatibility which she needs for school. So the only recourse is to buy a new iPad. Apple probably didn't do that on purpose but that's the result. I love new features with each OS update, but the fact remains that if you buy a fabulous new Apple iOS device now, 4 years hence it will become as slow as a snail. That shouldn't be. Each OS update should bring with it not only new features and fixes, but more compact and faster running code too. Apple just isn't spending enough time of code optimization. If they did, the speed of the latest Apple hardware would likely be twice as fast in perceptible performance than now.