This was one of the first apple products that REALLY screwed over buyers. As opposed to the ones that "just" screw over buyers. its a shame they gimped the older ipads because you just cant kill them any other way. My 1st gen iPad is still going strong but its pretty much down to email and only a few other apps that are still functional.
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Apple to Classify Third-Generation iPad as Obsolete Later This Month
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That's not really counterintuitive, very few web sites, are light these days, the streaming video barely changed over time while web sites, even the lightest are now all javascript apps.
I can still stream video as new to a 3GS, but browsing the web... Oh my, slow slow slow. Each web site is a mammoth these days.
Ah, the iPad3. I admit I bought it, and was amazed by the retina screen, then the iPad 4 came out. Good thing I reacted quickly and sold the 3.
As consumers, we cannot keep blaming Apple for releasing “crap” while we keep buying the same “crap.” Seriously, if you bought it, then it’s not “crap.” I learned my lesson, and timed my purchases more carefully.
I had iPhone 4, but skipped the 4S since I expected my next iPhone to have 1GB of RAM. Hen I bought the 5, and it seems to be the only iPhone that passed on gracefully on its last iOS. Same thing for my next iPhone. I wanted 2GB or RAM, and patiently skipped the 5S and 6 for the 6S. Thus is also the reason I’m not buying the 7, 8, not X.
As for iPad, when I bought the mini 2, it became my sole iPad. I wanted my next iPad to have large amount of RAM (but not 12.9” screen), more than my phone. So I waited and waited, skipping the Air, Air 2, and not biting even the 9.7” pro. Finally Apple released the 10.5 and I bought it. My wait for a newer mini is still on though.
Apple is a company, and if you think Apple is greedy today, go back to the G4 cube under Jobs and check the price of that thing. It also suffered many issues. Apple has been the same, we just need to be smarter instead of buying every shiny thing.
As consumers, we cannot keep blaming Apple for releasing “crap” while we keep buying the same “crap.” Seriously, if you bought it, then it’s not “crap.” I learned my lesson, and timed my purchases more carefully.
I had iPhone 4, but skipped the 4S since I expected my next iPhone to have 1GB of RAM. Hen I bought the 5, and it seems to be the only iPhone that passed on gracefully on its last iOS. Same thing for my next iPhone. I wanted 2GB or RAM, and patiently skipped the 5S and 6 for the 6S. Thus is also the reason I’m not buying the 7, 8, not X.
As for iPad, when I bought the mini 2, it became my sole iPad. I wanted my next iPad to have large amount of RAM (but not 12.9” screen), more than my phone. So I waited and waited, skipping the Air, Air 2, and not biting even the 9.7” pro. Finally Apple released the 10.5 and I bought it. My wait for a newer mini is still on though.
Apple is a company, and if you think Apple is greedy today, go back to the G4 cube under Jobs and check the price of that thing. It also suffered many issues. Apple has been the same, we just need to be smarter instead of buying every shiny thing.
No, not anymore as Apple won’t be signing the software.
I remember when iPad 3 was announced and they got into trouble with the ASA for advertising LTE when it wasn’t available in the U.K.
Seems like yesterday... not a fair few years ago!
You just listed exactly why we hated it so much.
The problem is, using the same horsepower to power 2048x1536 pixels as you were pushing 1024x768 is going to take it's toll. Regardless of the software.
The GPU alone has to crunch 4X more pixels. This means that it had to work that extra hard to keep the display updated. This alone means the CPU needed to push more data, faster, more constantly to the GPU. overall, any additional "headroom" the CPU/GPU had with the old resolutions was now gone, providing a far shorter "future proof" of the device.
the iPad 4 was a much needed correction to actually provide the right hardware combined to the screen.
That's why it got A5X chip with much more powerful GPU than A5 and 1GB RAM. I don't recall any issues with speed on iOS 5-7 when I used to have this device. It ran every app and game as well as iPad 2 and iPad mini did. iPad 2 was made obsolete much earlier that iPad 3 by not getting Siri and FaceTime over Cellular. That was my #1 reason to jailbreak iPad 2 just to get FaceTime working over cellular. With newer versions of iOS and applications, every A5/X device got slower, not just iPad 3. Everything that used to work on iPad 3 5 years ago still works the same way today. Of course we can't compare speed of current devices like iPad Pro with iPad 3...
iPad 4 brought usual upgrades just a bit earlier. It doens't mean that there was something wrong with iPad 3. Nowadays iPad 4 is almost as obsolete as iPad 3 since it can't run iOS 11 or any of the multitasking features of other iPads as it's too slow for that and doesn't have enough RAM.
So I was burned on the iPad 3. Have had an iPad Air 2 since it came out. Battery is slipping, as is speed. So I’m asking for the 2017 iPad for Christmas. Not Pro, just the $430 iPad. If they burn me on that in 2018, that will probably be it for iPads & me...
