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Apple to Classify Third-Generation iPad as Obsolete Later This Month
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I bought one on launch. It did fine until my air which I still own and use.
Still using the one I got on launch day. It is noticeably slower, but it works fine for my wife to shop online, post on Facebook, check her email, and send messages. I do have to say I felt just a little let down by Apple when they announced the 4th gen just a few months after I got mine. It feels like the 3rd gen was a stopgap device released just so Apple could claim a retina display on the iPad but Apple wasn't ready with the A6 chipset yet.
I suspect I'll wind up replacing it later this year when the 2017 iPad likely is one of the Black Friday sale items and I can get a $50 gift card along with the purchase. I'm still kicking myself for not grabbing an iPad Air 2 when they were selling for $299.
I suspect I'll wind up replacing it later this year when the 2017 iPad likely is one of the Black Friday sale items and I can get a $50 gift card along with the purchase. I'm still kicking myself for not grabbing an iPad Air 2 when they were selling for $299.
That's good to know. I've stopped trying to do home sharing because nothing can connect to my audio library; they all time out. I moved to iTunes in the cloud/match because home sharing basically failed.
I don't think that's fair (I mean, I'm biased - I bought one). It was the new iPad, and Apple were harping on for so long about how much engineering effort it took to get a Retina display in there. Customers couldn't have foreseen Apple replacing it with something significantly slimmer, faster and lighter barely half a year after it launched.
IMO, Apple lied to those customers.
iPad 3 was truly awful. It felt slow the moment it was released, especially compared to the iPad 2. After a couple of years and a couple of updates, it would take 10-20 seconds to open standard applications. I don't understand how people can still be using these things. What kind of masochists are you?
Aww, this is the one I have. I was livid when the 4 came out a few short months after. 
Still good for what I use it for though. *cough* And thank God for that screen protector.
Still good for what I use it for though. *cough*
And thank God for that screen protector. still the only one i've had. it was absolutely killed by OS upgrades, often taking seconds to register keystrokes. though it wasn't too slow when i bought it. but the overall experience was enough to put me off ipads. i still think it looked more attractive than the ones with asymmetrical edges though.
Wait...so, it wasn’t already labeled obsolete when the iPad 4 came out?
Having had both the 2 and the 3, the problem is that without a CPU update, the iPad 3 hard time driving the Retina display. Even out of the box it ran slower and hotter and had less battery life that our 2.
Well, to be fair, the iPad 3 was more akin to the first-gen iPad than the iPad 2. I mean, that retina display was both the best and worst thing about the iPad 3. It was a step up in resolution, for sure, but the hardware wasn't able to properly drive that many pixels. The iPad 3 was an example of Apple shipping a product that wasn't ready for primetime even back then.
About £350!
They also threw in some accessories. Click to see the product page.
Searching iPad on the site brings up all the bundles they have for it!
had one, never gave me issues.
my mother still uses it. it's slow and all, but enough for her needs.
my mother still uses it. it's slow and all, but enough for her needs.
But it had a GPU update, which should have given it better performance to handle the retina display.
I bought one on launch to replace my iPad 2 and was annoyed when the iPad 4 came out so quickly. Luckily I managed to sell it on.
Nothing older than the iPad Air 1 is getting OS/Security updates, right? So largely a moot point.
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My iPad 2 still works well. Only issue of course is it's not safe to use for most stuff since it hasn't gotten security updates in 2 years.
I had WAY less problems with that 30-bit connector than lightning!
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The iPad 3 had 2x the GPU but had to push 4x the pixels, so... Even still, I doubt it was that bad. I THINK it had 2x the RAM? That alone would have made it a nice upgrade over the 2.
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My iPad 2 still works well. Only issue of course is it's not safe to use for most stuff since it hasn't gotten security updates in 2 years.
I had WAY less problems with that 30-bit connector than lightning!
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The iPad 3 had 2x the GPU but had to push 4x the pixels, so... Even still, I doubt it was that bad. I THINK it had 2x the RAM? That alone would have made it a nice upgrade over the 2.
mine was obsolete 6 months after i bought it
terrible , worst ipad ever
terrible , worst ipad ever
It wasn't obsolete, and worst ever probably has to go to the original, since it was massively under-powered at launch, and unlike the 2, didn't get security updates very long.
The 3 should have gotten years of updates, and had 4x the RAM of the original, and way more CPU and GPU too (even if it's nothing by today's standards).
to say the truth, it was the iDevice that made me go back to iPhone! lol
I remember being SO MAD when i saw the iPad 4 keynote and damn them bezels. I almost forgot
