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Apple Winding Down iPad 2 Production After Three-Year Run

I got 2014 range rover sport. Dealer had promo for iPad or 42 inch lg flat screen. When I found out it was an iPad 2. I opted for lg flat screen 42 inch.

Ridiculous they are still selling iPad 2 for $399 msrp.

At least the public has finally said enough is enough. Might as well pay $399 for iPad min retina for $499 for iPad air.
 
aneftp said:
I got 2014 range rover sport. Dealer had promo for iPad or 42 inch lg flat screen. When I found out it was an iPad 2. I opted for lg flat screen 42 inch.

Ridiculous they are still selling iPad 2 for $399 msrp.

At least the public has finally said enough is enough. Might as well pay $399 for iPad min retina for $499 for iPad air.
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I'd probably have opted for the iPad to sell and get an Air. TVs are a bit more cumbersome to ship and have bad resale value. Plus, the iPad is probably actually still worth more, even being an older model. This is, of course, assuming you didn't already have another purpose for the TV.

On another note, when was the last time a company even made a non-flat screen TV that wasn't a projector?
 
69Mustang said:
It has been, and still is a great device for my family. It runs like a champ. My wife and 2 kids use it daily... and often. I don't get to use it as much as I used to because my girls are more connected now. I had to separate my tools from theirs.

To borrow a phrase from Timex - it takes a lickin' and... you know the rest:D
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Agreed. My family has skipped all gens since the 2, there is just no need for us to upgrade. I still use the crap out of our iPad 1, and need not replace it. Hell, my 9-yr old daughter was ecstatic about getting a gen 3 iPod Touch handed down to her (still works like a champ)!!

Speaks volumes about Steve Jobs's legacy and vision when it comes to iOS devices. I believe it is the final realization of his vision, from Xerox, through the Mac, all the way to the iPad. He brought us the future, and he left. Mission accomplished.
 
GreatDrok said:
I still have my iPad 1 and an iPad mini. I still use the 1 to watch TV and movies while on my cross trainer plus a few other light tasks but it is clearly in need of a wipe and reinstall because it is pretty crashy at the moment. Going back to iOS 5 is a bit jarring now my phone and iPad mini are on iOS 7. Wish I had just waited a couple of months more and got the iPad 2. They literally only sold the 1 here for about six months before it was replaced, but on the other hand I've had over three years of use out of it and when I bought it I figured that would be the usable life but the iPad 2 should get at least iOS 8 since they can't drop support for the non-retina mini and the two devices are largely the same.

I suspect the iPad 2 was more a victim of the arrival of the non-retina mini at a lower price since it gets people into a genuine iPad for even less and the form factor is nicer. Going back to my full-size iPad is pretty hard work.
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I have my iPad 1 Jailbroken with an iOS 7 theme and a lot of cool tweaks and still runs perfectly for using productivity apps like iWork, iDraw and Procreate, and of course games and YouTube, Flipboard and TuneIn Radio :D

Of course, I restore it completely and without an iCloud backup every six months to ensure maximum performance. It only crashes on heavy sites like Apple's iPhone page.
 
I really really really really hope they keep it till October (Meaning they've got to put iOS 8 on it). I have mine on iOS 7 and it runs great, and I have no intentions of upgrading (Or the money to do so!! :p )

Hopefully they do release iOS 8 for the iPad 2. Given that a large number of people still use the iPad 2, and the fact that it shares its components with the 4S, Mini 1st gen and iPod touch 5th gen. Surely they can't drop support for the iPod touch 5th gen, the 4S and the Mini 1 ?
 
Not sure why they would stop. Prolly costs them like $25 to make the iPad 2 and there are still crazy people paying $400 for them.... Might as well keep hustling your customers if you can.
 
disinfectant said:
I still have an iPhone 4 :(
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You'll be extremely happy when you'll finally upgrade :)

If not for the advances with camera, thinness or whatever, then definitely for speed:

iphone-5s-cpu-performance.jpg
 
about damn time! That freaking 30-pin is a God Damn nightmare at school ssites and in classroom iPad carts. It falls out, breaks the chip... absolute nightmare.

The 30-pin can take 15-30 minutes trying to connect a class set of iPads... good freaking riddens!
 
yea, nobody is buying it because it is ridiculously expensive for what it is.

public are generally more tech savvy these days.
 
$399 is a joke for this piece of ancient history

I could have understood $249 or maybe even $299. But $399, come on Apple? What are you smoking? For $399 you can get a mini retina with a faster processor (by a mile) and future proof-ing. The iPad 2 will be granted clemency for iOS 8 (which it will run in hobbled mode), but then be given the axe for iOS 9.

A couple of months back I purchased an iPad 4 for $320 off of craigslist. Why on earth would I have wanted an iPad 2 for $400 plus tax?

I think it a bad idea for apple to not bring back the ipad 3 or 4 as the bargain large iPad for $399. But this seems to be their new m.o. evidenced from the ugly iPhone 5C (which instead of becoming the solid $99 subsidized performer of the past year-old phones is being offered for $0 during some specials).

It will be interesting to see what Apple does moving forward for ipad and iphone with their two tier model and whether the year old models are always booted off the retail floor.
 
oldmacs said:
I really really really really hope they keep it till October (Meaning they've got to put iOS 8 on it). I have mine on iOS 7 and it runs great, and I have no intentions of upgrading (Or the money to do so!! :p )

Hopefully they do release iOS 8 for the iPad 2. Given that a large number of people still use the iPad 2, and the fact that it shares its components with the 4S, Mini 1st gen and iPod touch 5th gen. Surely they can't drop support for the iPod touch 5th gen, the 4S and the Mini 1 ?
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They probably will keep it until Spetember... If not, they will have a new product released before Spetember which is not likely in this point of time. I highly doubt they will have anything by next month and Apple does not likely to announce new iPads on WWDC as well. Even if they get ride of iPad 2, they will still have support iPad mini and iPod Touch 5 which using same hardware as iPad 2. iPad 2 probably will get iOS 8 and I think it might even get iOS 9
 
currocj said:
I could have understood $249 or maybe even $299. But $399, come on Apple? What are you smoking? For $399 you can get a mini retina with a faster processor (by a mile) and future proof-ing. The iPad 2 will be granted clemency for iOS 8 (which it will run in hobbled mode), but then be given the axe for iOS 9.

A couple of months back I purchased an iPad 4 for $320 off of craigslist. Why on earth would I have wanted an iPad 2 for $400 plus tax?

I think it a bad idea for apple to not bring back the ipad 3 or 4 as the bargain large iPad for $399. But this seems to be their new m.o. evidenced from the ugly iPhone 5C (which instead of becoming the solid $99 subsidized performer of the past year-old phones is being offered for $0 during some specials).

It will be interesting to see what Apple does moving forward for ipad and iphone with their two tier model and whether the year old models are always booted off the retail floor.
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I rather a ipad air non retina with A7 chip
 
osofast240sx said:
A non retina would be perfect for enterprise.
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osofast240sx said:
I rather a ipad air non retina with A7 chip
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OK, I’ll bite ... since you’ve mentioned it twice in the same thread :)

The higher resolution display improves just about everything you do on an iPad from any text based use (web, ebooks, authoring docs, reading PDFs, email, even the text content of the OS like settings), fine graphic details are greatly improved from browsing photos to playing games. Where it’s not a notable improvement (I don’t think video is greatly improved on a 9.7” display), it’s also doesn’t degrade the experience.

At this point, price isn’t seriously impacted, the current SoC easily pushes around the extra pixels, and even battery life doesn’t seem to be suffering with the newer screen tech, etc.

I’ve owned and moved back and forth between retina and non-retina devices (sometimes daily as part of devopment), both full sized iPads and Minis and I always considered the devices with a retina display to be - without question - the better experience.

What’ the deal? :D
 
D.T. said:
OK, I’ll bite ... since you’ve mentioned it twice in the same thread :)

The higher resolution display improves just about everything you do on an iPad from any text based use (web, ebooks, authoring docs, reading PDFs, email, even the text content of the OS like settings), fine graphic details are greatly improved from browsing photos to playing games. Where it’s not a notable improvement (I don’t think video is greatly improved on a 9.7” display), it’s also doesn’t degrade the experience.

At this point, price isn’t seriously impacted, the current SoC easily pushes around the extra pixels, and even battery life doesn’t seem to be suffering with the newer screen tech, etc.

I’ve owned and moved back and forth between retina and non-retina devices (sometimes daily as part of devopment), both full sized iPads and Minis and I always considered the devices with a retina display to be - without question - the better experience.

What’ the deal? :D
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For enterprise do you really need the extra pixels? Apple seems to need a $399 entry for a full size tablet
 
Richardgm said:
Mine still runs like a champ. Well, I neglected to put iOS 7 on it, so that may be a contributing factor.
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my is still chugging nicely too. iOS 7 seems OK, it gets a bit laggy in some tasks, but I'm not a heavy gamer so I don't see it often. Hopefully (probably certainly?) it will get iOS 8 and performance will be OK. Otherwise Apple is gonna have to come up with some semi-permenant way of handling old OS versions. There's WAY to many iPad 2 devices to consider sending them to the farm just yet.

I still think Apple needs a spinoff company to handle support for old iOS versions and devices. That's tens (hundreds?) of MILLIONS of devices going "obsolete" very shortly. There could be real money in keeping them going 5 more years and at iOS 7 just somebody needs rights to keep the the lights on longer.
 
I think Apple could release iPad Air 16GB Without rear camera as iPod touch 16GB.
And discounted the iPad 2.
 
Richardgm said:
Mine still runs like a champ. Well, I neglected to put iOS 7 on it, so that may be a contributing factor.
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It was such a quantum leap coming from the 1...Man I wish I'd kept my 1! But the whole device was a game changer...I'm on a 4 at the moment, but I owned ( briefly) the 3 too, so I've had em all...For now, funds don't allow me an Air but I'd like one...Even though many are reporting little if any performance differences, It's the storage I'd be after.

The fact that Apple have continued to produce and sell the 2 just goes to show how good it really was....Mine wound up in Boston and from there was sold again to fund somebodies newbie....But if I had just one to keep?

The first one!
 
I think apple should either continue to sell the iPad 2 because of its legacy connector and the fact schools still rely on that or if they do sell a lower cost iPad with a lightning connector than they should included a lighting to 30 pin connector adapter!
 
michael31986 said:
I think apple should either continue to sell the iPad 2 because of its legacy connector and the fact schools still rely on that or if they do sell a lower cost iPad with a lightning connector than they should included a lighting to 30 pin connector adapter!
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Everything changes. This includes power cables. The school will get over it.
 
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