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Apple's 9th Gen iPad Gets Biggest Discount to Date, Available for $229.99
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Odd, mine works just fine on IOS 17.1.1. I got it last year as the 10th generation had the price increase and took out the headphone jack.
I have an iPad 8 myself (one version older than this one). It works smoothly.
What apps/games is he running, and how much free space does he have?
I completely agree. I have a iPad 8 and it's great as a text/book reader, light web surfing, document editing with Apple Pencil.
Strange! Mine is great and got it when it pretty much came out too. I’ve ran betas and I use it everyday. Currently running iOS 17.2 beta 3 and it’s better than ever
I‘m running a 5th generation iPad mini that has the same amount of RAM and an A12 Bionic that’s one generation behind. I haven‘t restarted the device in days and I‘m writing this from one of the 80+ tabs currently „open“ in Safari (well, most of them would reload from the internet) on iOS 17.
I bought it soon after release in 2019, it has travelled with me dozens of times, in addition to using it on my commute as well as at home. Been using it daily and the battery is somewhat degraded (drains noticeably faster) after hundreds of charging cycles. Is it running as snappy as on a new battery and iOS 12? Probably not. But I can‘t say that it bogs down or freezes regularly. Not even when playing games.
Would I recommend buying an iPad with a 2019 SoC today though? That’s a different question.
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It really is. How many different variations of iPad are there now? How many SKU’s? It’s nearly impossible for the average consumer to navigate. It’s no wonder their sales are dropping…who knows what to buy?
I've got a much older 7th gen iPad running iPad OS 17 and it works just fine. I use it for development testing, and even when I'm debugging on it it's totally responsive.
Your points are inane and not applicable to what I'm complaining about. I'm looking for my iPad to properly run apps from the app store, nothing more. If my iPad can't run those apps properly then they shouldn't be downloadable and usable. Again, I get that technology moves on and hardware becomes outdated and I simply got caught in this trap, I just thought I had more time than the 2 years since this iPad was relesed.
It's not just apps/games, it's doing simple stuff like going through settings. Most of his stuff runs ok, it's just that overall it slows down and/or freezes intermittently but then resumes function. When it runs it seems to run ok. It's a 64gb with about 35gb free.
That is not normal. I messed around with my iPad 8 before responding, and on an iPad 8 with about 5GB free, settings open quickly and I'm able to click on a panel and options appear almost instantly.
Take it to Apple, see what's wrong with it.
It exists to have a starting point to build higher prices for the better models. If the 9th gen didn't exist, curious what the price of the current 10th gen iPad would be...
I would think that if it were not for my experience with multiple other devices which act in a similar fashion including iPads, iPhones, Macbook laptops. I've previously had them look at an iPad mini 4 and my iPhone 13 pro max and both times, after resetting and troubleshooting they said were functioning normally even though they acknowledged the slowdowns, in particular the mini 4. I would normally take it into an Apple store if I had extra time to waste, but I already know it's going to be the same thing.
The slowdowns and freezes are not all the time, sometimes it runs smoothly, there really doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason as sometimes he has an intensive game backgrounded and it works fine, other times there isn't anything else running and it slows down. Couple that with the continued Screentime bugs where Screentime is nigh useless and I think a better course of action will be to just get my 6 year old a used SP3 and leave the iPad around if he wants to play games he can only find on the app store.
Then I'm guessing it's his games and that they are maximizing the RAM. But without any more information about the problem, or the games, I can't help you, and I'm not going to waste my time further .Thank you.
Historically when one model comes out it replaces the next, and generally (not always) keeps the same price. In this case the iPad Gen10 is the successor to the Gen9, but obviously the new iPad comes at a higher price. The higher price isn’t really for the new design, or upgraded internals. It’s the cost of transitioning from Lightning to USB-C. Lightning is a proprietary standard where Apple makes money from MFI/selling Lightning accessories/etc.
If you need more historical pricing strategy, take a look at what happens when Apple releases a new iPhone models or previous iPad models.