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Think it was a good thing for Apple not to support iOS 6.

It would have just made the iPad 1 unusable. iOS 5 already made it slower.
 
I have an iPad 1. It crashes a lot, including when the keyboard needs to come up, even to search in the App Store. This is in almost any app. I can't even open settings. Oddly, I can open and use Netflix, including search, at least this last time I tried.
 
Specifically having a hard time with browsers..they crash constantly (by that I mean magically close).
 
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