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iPad I Feel Forced to Upgrade
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Why not wait and see?
If you're that worried sell your 3 and get a 4. Or sell your 3 and get a 5 when it comes out.
I just did the former about a week and a half ago and paid minimal
If you're that worried sell your 3 and get a 4. Or sell your 3 and get a 5 when it comes out.
I just did the former about a week and a half ago and paid minimal
I doubt they would drop the iPad3 from IOS 8. All they would do is withhold some features. I currently have the iPad2/iPad3 and i'm quiet content except for the weight differnce between the 2 iPads.
I'd be more concerned about the looming obsolescence of your iMac 21.5", 2.7 GHz i5, 12GB RAM, 1TB HD; MacBook Pro 13", 2.4 GHz C2D, 4GB RAM, 250GB HD; iPad 3rd Generation - 64GB Verizon (Black); iPhone 5 - 32GB AT&T (Black); Apple TV - 3rd Generation.
i'd be more concerned about the looming obsolescence of your imac 21.5", 2.7 ghz i5, 12gb ram, 1tb hd; macbook pro 13", 2.4 ghz c2d, 4gb ram, 250gb hd; ipad 3rd generation - 64gb verizon (black); iphone 5 - 32gb at&t (black); apple tv - 3rd generation.
lol
The answer is simple. Sell all your possessions, become a hermit in a cave, and technological obsolescence will never bother you again.
How on earth can you be frustrated by some thing that may or may not happen in 2015?????
The sense of entitlement from some users on this forum staggers me
If one purchases an iPad from Apple, I wouldn't characterize it as a "sense of entitlement" to expect an update. This expression is overused and inappropriate for this siutation. He didn't buy the iPad with food stamps. He's a paying customer.
That being said, it may not be realistic at this point that the iPad 3 will get iOS 8. I think iOS 7 is a given though.
I still have my iPad 1, while I'm not using it (as my iPad mini has replaced it), my kids are using it. My wife still uses her iPad 1 as well.
My point, my first generation iPads are going strong, you're not being forced, we have no idea what iOS 7 will even look like, never mind iOS8 so don't worry what the future will present. You're iPad 3 is going strong now, so it will be fine in the foreseeable future.
My point, my first generation iPads are going strong, you're not being forced, we have no idea what iOS 7 will even look like, never mind iOS8 so don't worry what the future will present. You're iPad 3 is going strong now, so it will be fine in the foreseeable future.
I have an iPAD 1. The original. They don't even make good apps for me anymore. Most require an iPad 2 or higher Hows that for forced to upgrade.
Apple can be a bully sometimes.
Last year 2 men wearing black turtlenecks barged into my house at 3 in the morning while I was sound asleep and told me my iPhone 4 and iPad 2 would no longer be receiving future updates and forced me to log onto www.apple.com and purchase the newer iPhone 5 and iPad mini, against my will they made me order the 32 GB models because they felt 16GB wouldn't be enough for my needs and thought I would be happier with a larger capacity device.
My order was set for standard shipping but terrified at their demands I opted for the 2 day shipping (since it wasn't that much more) and forced me to confirm my order. I was so horrified at what had just happened I called my friend all excited, i mean terrified, to let him know that soon my packages would be arriving.
That night I was left in great fear that for 2 nights I could not sleep, I could have been traumatized or just excited about to get my package, till this day I still do not know (even though since I got my iPhone 5 I have been sleeping just fine every night)
That night as they 2 men were leaving my house, one man turned around an said "if you never want this to happen again, you better upgrade to every new model device Apple release or we will come back"
So I vowed then and there that I will upgrade every year to avoid any iOS software update issues.
Gawd, talk about 1st world problems - I still have a iPad 1st Gen, still does everything that it could when I first bought it and more with OS updates I have received after I purchased it. It gets used every single day. My iPhone was bought mid 2009 and funnily enough that still does everything and more since I bought it as well.
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Not true, only minority of Apps require iPad 2 or later - out of the current 10 best selling paid iPad Apps in the UK App Store today only 1 could not run on the iPad 1, which is iMovie.
It's funny 1/2 the people on this forum complain that Apple is not innovating enough, and the other half complain when they do, because their tech is not the latest and greatest.
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Not true, only minority of Apps require iPad 2 or later - out of the current 10 best selling paid iPad Apps in the UK App Store today only 1 could not run on the iPad 1, which is iMovie.
It's funny 1/2 the people on this forum complain that Apple is not innovating enough, and the other half complain when they do, because their tech is not the latest and greatest.
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Just curious, but have you checked out any other tablet (or phone) manufacturers? I'd say they're even worse than Apple is.
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He bought an iPad carrying an operating system. That OS will still be available to him, and by the time iPad 3 becomes "obsolete" it will have been updated several times. Nobody forces anyone to update their apps or the operating system of any device. If iOS incarnations weren't numbered but had names (iVista, iXP) this wouldn't seem so unfair.
So what youre saying is that Apple shouldnt upgrade products until you say its OK? Little selfish dont you think?
Except windows upgrades are largely available to anyone who bought a computer in the last 10 years. Anybody with a pentium 3 and Half a gig of ram can install windows 7 and and a slightly smaller number of people can install windows 8. I see your point and I mostly agree with it but that probably wasn't the best comparison in my opinion.
The only entity forcing you is yourself. You're talking about normal EOL (end of life) stuff for a device. What did you expect when you bought it, support for the next 10 years?
The iPad 3 and 4 are not so similar as that.
Agreed
How on earth can you be frustrated by some thing that may or may not happen in 2015?????
The sense of entitlement from some users on this forum staggers me
I wouldn't call it a sense of entitlement, more along the lines of "just looking for something to complain about."
The difference in CPU architecture is quit large. The screen and outside appearance is pretty much where the similarities end.