List of iOS 10 Compatible iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch Models [Updated]

[danleon950410]

Yeah, that's right. A5 wasn't a "quick decision" when they finally dropped it. It still lives in an enormous part of the active iPads.
And say everything you want about recent models, but the A5 was a true revolution and had the biggest impact among Apple users.
RIP, you warrior!

 

[oldmacs]

Yeah, that's right. A5 wasn't a "quick decision" when they finally dropped it. It still lives in an enormous part of the active iPads.
And say everything you want about recent models, but the A5 was a true revolution and had the biggest impact among Apple users.
RIP, you warrior!

From various statistics, around 40 percent of installed iPads seem to be A5 iPads - A HUGE number!

I still think the iPad 2 was the definitive iPad. Truly kickstarted things and one of the few apple devices to not have any major controversy or issues.

 

[997440]

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Apple could also continue with security updates for a good period of time, like they do with old versions of OSX.

I don't know why they couldn't. Seems to be a rational approach for devices that were still being sold only a short time ago.

Even with A there will still be older hardware that won't do well at some point. And while I agree with B, it's not really related to making a newer version available or not as that is more of a decision as to how well the hardware can handle it and not so much on whether or not one can "recover" from it.

Is 'security updates only' a possible approach? (Honest question because I don't fully understand iOS and/or the burden this approach would place on Apple.)

Edit: to add related article from Macworld, 2015.

 

[danleon950410]

From various statistics, around 40 percent of installed iPads seem to be A5 iPads - A HUGE number!

I still think the iPad 2 was the definitive iPad. Truly kickstarted things and one of the few apple devices to not have any major controversy or issues.

I completely agree
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I don't know why they couldn't. Seems to be a rational approach for devices that were still being sold only a short time ago.


Is 'security updates only' a possible approach? (Honest question because I don't fully understand iOS and/or the burden this approach would place on Apple.)

Edit: to add related article from Macworld, 2015.

It would be a really good idea
[doublepost=1465922459][/doublepost]Only hope for us owners of A5 devices to get iOS10 features and themes is JB.
And JB community has been quiet for a while, so i'm really afarid of the possibility of a JB not coming to 9.3.3 versions on 32-bit devices.

 

[AlexBerkman]

My iPad mini have been a good and trusted device, now its time to say goodbye and welcome to iPad mini 4 64gb. Its on its way.

 

[oldmacs]

My iPad mini have been a good and trusted device, now its time to say goodbye and welcome to iPad mini 4 64gb. Its on its way.

Lol, my iPad 2 is not going down without another year of fighting Had it for 3 years of high school and now into my 3rd year of uni, so its here with me until the Pro 9.7 gets 4GB of ram, ideally until I finish uni mid next year.

 

[Shirasaki]

After reading a few posts.
What Apple serve is not only us customers, if any.
Ok, and even though there is a huge install base of iPad 2, but also large amount of them don't even bother upgrading them to the latest iOS. They are maybe at iOS 7, 8, or even 6 if not iOS 5. Why? Because their productivity app runs perfectly fine on older system. I have seen so many iPad mini in my school still using iOS 7, yet I feel no need for them to upgrade to even iOS 8. Not all guys need the latest and the greatest.
iOS 9 on A5 is already super slow. I can clearly feel that. And also unfortunately most customers don't care about "optimization" thingy but just know to complain when their devices run iOS 9 slowly. Plus, as iOS gets bigger and adds more features, there is a threshold preventing those engineers to optimize iOS 10 in order to run on A5, I believe.
Apple is not Microsoft. Microsoft needs windows to run on as many devices as possible so they need to spend a lot on optimising Windows 10 so that it can run on even 6 year old hardware. Apple don't need to. They want to sell more hardware, latest and "greatest".
So I feel frustrated because of apple style inconsistency again, but not the fact A5 is abandoned at iOS 10 stage.