iPad Do you think the iPad 2 will get iOS 8?

[rtomyj]

Apple has always RAM-bottlenecked iOS devices for marketing puproses.

The original iPad, iPhone 3GS or fourth-gen iPod Touch with 512 MB of RAM would run iOS 7 as good as the iPhone 4.

Do you by chance have proof?

 

[alphaod]

My iPad 3 struggles with iOS 7, so I imagine the iPad 2 with the same processor will be dropped a well. Apple did stop selling the iPad 2, so they wouldn't have issues with "supporting" a still sold product.

 

[Plutonius]

Probably, but it will not support all features of IOS 8 and the performance will not be optimal . We should soon hear from Apple what will be supported.

 

[deluxeshredder]

Do you by chance have proof?

No, but they have identical CPU/GPU (only with different clocks) to the iPhone 4.

 

[MinBCrafter]

It might support
but I thinking about my iPod touch 5G
iPod touch 5G have not same internal as iPad 2
I look deeper and I found out the a5 in iPad mini and iPod touch 5 is 32nm and a5 in the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S is 45nm
So it have some chance aswell iPad 2 might not support

 

[RoboWarriorSr]

It might support

but I thinking about my iPod touch 5G

iPod touch 5G have not same internal as iPad 2

I look deeper and I found out the a5 in iPad mini and iPod touch 5 is 32nm and a5 in the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S is 45nm

So it have some chance aswell iPad 2 might not support

The only major difference between 32nm and 45nm is energy efficiency. Performance between the two are nearly identical. The 32nm was a test bed for Apple manufacturing the 32nm A6 (they wanted factory to start producing 32nm before the iPhone 5 launch date so try wouldn't run out of orders due to manufacturing).