Is this topic meant to be a joke? LOL@the iPad 1 being more snappy on iOS 5 than iOS 9 on an iPad Air. I had an iPad 1 for my daughter and it was borderline unusable for even web surfing. It was great for it's time, but now that small amount of ram makes things so slow. I have since bought her an iPad 2 and it is slow too, but at least apps will work on it. My iPad Air 2 and 12.9 pro have spoiled me though.
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Lol this was great "it was borderline unusable". Haha.. I agree though, I think the topic was meant to be a joke.
Eh the iPad 1 is a terrible user experience in 2016. Also at $120 you greatly overpaid for that thing. I see them on Craigslist for around $50 and selling for $60-70 max on eBay.
That depends on your use case. It browses the web, does email, and Netflix just fine. For most users, that's all they need. So exactly how is it a terrible user experience?
We gave my father-in-law my wife's old iPad 1. He uses it all the time. It drives me nuts how slow & underpowered it is (or that I perceive it to be for my uses) but he loves it, and it's pretty much replaced his old desktop as his main computer. I couldn't go back to it, but it's great that he finds it to be so useful.
You do realize, that thanks to iOS, the slow part is all in your head. I use my iPad 1, my iPad mini and my 12.9 iPP, and they all seem to run at the same speed. So maybe web pages open a little fast on the newer machine, but I'm thinking that has more to do with faster networking than really a faster machine. Of course, this is a problem for Apple, because once you stop upgrading the OS, the old product never gets any slower, so there is no real "need" to upgrade until you can't upgrade apps anymore..
I think people who stick with old tech like this are legendary.
It's easy to blow cash each year and fill up Apple's bank account on minor upgrades. But to stick with older tech that still does the job (all be it slowly) is amazing!
I do have the 12.9 but i bought it to keep a long time, i had the mini and wanted the biggest so...
I'll also admit i wrote off the Air 2 when my dad got it but... day to day use its REALLY snappy. Meaning it's easy to judge.
It's easy to blow cash each year and fill up Apple's bank account on minor upgrades. But to stick with older tech that still does the job (all be it slowly) is amazing!
I do have the 12.9 but i bought it to keep a long time, i had the mini and wanted the biggest so...
I'll also admit i wrote off the Air 2 when my dad got it but... day to day use its REALLY snappy. Meaning it's easy to judge.
My iPad one comes in handy for textbooks.. and generally when I can't be bothered getting the pro out for use lol. And to just See how so different it is to what we have now and how iOS system has also developed.
If I could go back to ios4 on the iPad 1 I would....but obviously need to have blobs for that, which I dont have.
If I could go back to ios4 on the iPad 1 I would....but obviously need to have blobs for that, which I dont have.
Precisely why my iPhone 6 won't be going to iOS 10 (if I can avoid it). They love to force this stuff though so hopefully it stays on 9.
Looking at my 4S, iOS 8 even is terrible on it. Things like typing iMessages are slow and painful, while they were perfect on iOS 5/6.
My iPad 1 navigates the OS faster than my iPhone 6 on iOS 9, but of course it falls flat trying to load web pages or apps.
I pulled mine out and charged it up after reading some of these comments. And websites like MR load fine. Interestly, the part that is painfully slow are the banner ads, which are also my biggest complaint with MR on any site -- honestly I'm OK with ads, but make them load quicker and take up less bandwidth!
But what I find the most frustrating is the inability to load more than one tab and switch between them without forcing a complete reload. I also find that with only one page of articles on MR, I'm actually forced to reload the content just to scroll to the bottom and back to the top. Was the Internet actually that much smaller 6 years ago?
If I operate within those limitations, it's perfectly fine for web browsing. But who really surfs the web that way? I suppose reading the NYT article after article would be fine this way.
Thanks to this thread, I'm going to start using it more regularly now. It will come in handy when my iPad runs low on power, and I plug it in to charge, to do a quick fact check or keep reading some articles.
Transition to full time I Pad Air complete today.
Sold MacBook Pro late 2013 8g 512 ssd included 3rd gen aes.
450 via eBay to an honest purchaser , I'm happy as they will be very well taken care of in sunny Devon
Gone from Sierra pb5 to iOS 9.3.5
Such a lovely little simple device
Sold MacBook Pro late 2013 8g 512 ssd included 3rd gen aes.
450 via eBay to an honest purchaser , I'm happy as they will be very well taken care of in sunny Devon
Gone from Sierra pb5 to iOS 9.3.5
Such a lovely little simple device
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Your argument is irrelevant. iOS 6 is still very capable and can still do a lot of things iOS 9 & 10 can do. I still get everything I need done on iOS 6 and at the same time do it in great time and enjoy the experience getting it done. Experience is terrible in the newer iOS versions and I think Apple has forgotten what experience is.
So you agree that the iPad 1 running iOS 5.1.1 is a better experience than an iPad Air running iOS 9 / 10?
Yep, mine still works good, a little issues with the YouTube app and Safari is buggy, but it otherwise is good. 
I like my hand-me-down iPad 2 from five years ago more than my 1.5 year old ASUS Transformer Book with Windows 8.1.
iPad 2 (iOS 8.3)
+ Amazing battery life like new..
+ Loud speaker
I only use it to watch 100 videos and 100 songs on it. It is weak with WiFi signal and slow at browsing. It can show a hint of lag while I scroll fast. I
I usually sell off iOS devices because I hate using iTunes. But this iPad 2 I plan to keep. Could last over 10 years since it already halfway there and battery didn't seem to degrade at all. It hardly loses 1-2% per day on idle. I probably charge it once every two weeks depending if I watch a video at night.
Avoid ASUS at all cost. Got a Zenfone Go "4.5 five days ago. Like the Transformer Book, battery simply dies on standby. I tried everything with Greenify, Disable Services, and battery saving modes. Airplane mode too. I used a stop watch once I unplugged it from charger. It got down to 15% after 15h. I saw it a couple hours ago. I just checked and it is dead now. It's about 17h overall while doing nothing with it. The Transformer Book keyboard is already starting to crap out on me.
ASUS is junk. As much as I don't like iOS, I hate ASUS more. At least Apple builds quality products. I am really quite wary with Taiwanese products. My HTC phones also gave me problems. Lesson learned. Very few mobile brands I trust now...
Nokia
Motorola
LG
Xiaomi
Samsung
Huawei
Apple
Sony
I don't trust OPPO that much. Still unsure with ZTE too. So that's the pool of names where I plan to buy my products from. I used to hate iPads. I am still not into tablets. But iPads are cool to me. Much better at maintaining battery degradation over the years than iPhones. Apple's iPhones are their bread and butter for planned obsolescence. While a decent iPad can last FIVE YEARS easily if you want.
iPad 2 (iOS 8.3)
+ Amazing battery life like new..
+ Loud speaker
I only use it to watch 100 videos and 100 songs on it. It is weak with WiFi signal and slow at browsing. It can show a hint of lag while I scroll fast. I
I usually sell off iOS devices because I hate using iTunes. But this iPad 2 I plan to keep. Could last over 10 years since it already halfway there and battery didn't seem to degrade at all. It hardly loses 1-2% per day on idle. I probably charge it once every two weeks depending if I watch a video at night.
Avoid ASUS at all cost. Got a Zenfone Go "4.5 five days ago. Like the Transformer Book, battery simply dies on standby. I tried everything with Greenify, Disable Services, and battery saving modes. Airplane mode too. I used a stop watch once I unplugged it from charger. It got down to 15% after 15h. I saw it a couple hours ago. I just checked and it is dead now. It's about 17h overall while doing nothing with it. The Transformer Book keyboard is already starting to crap out on me.
ASUS is junk. As much as I don't like iOS, I hate ASUS more. At least Apple builds quality products. I am really quite wary with Taiwanese products. My HTC phones also gave me problems. Lesson learned. Very few mobile brands I trust now...
Nokia
Motorola
LG
Xiaomi
Samsung
Huawei
Apple
Sony
I don't trust OPPO that much. Still unsure with ZTE too. So that's the pool of names where I plan to buy my products from. I used to hate iPads. I am still not into tablets. But iPads are cool to me. Much better at maintaining battery degradation over the years than iPhones. Apple's iPhones are their bread and butter for planned obsolescence. While a decent iPad can last FIVE YEARS easily if you want.
Yes, it very well can be for sure. "iOS" today is very different than iOS legacy. It looks different and works differently too in a sense. It runs lighter than iOS does today and handles things quite well. Even though iOS 6 is 4 years old it still holds up quite well. Safari is pretty freaking solid to be 4 years old as well as the OS in general... and you can't really say otherwise. I can get a lot done on my iPad 4 on 6 and the experience couldn't get much better. iOS legacy as a whole just makes more sense than iOS modern does or ever will.
It's irrelevant because Apple hasn't really moved forward with UX they have gone way way backwards and the current UIs look like OS 8 & 9. It's poor UI choice that doesn't make any sense that looks childish and looks like an Alpha that was never completed. This "flat UI" trend has been nothing but a head ache and really makes companies looks as if they had to make extreme budget cuts, like they fired their entire design team and hired 5 year olds to do it.Yup, makes my whole point "irrelevant"
That above has a much different message than this:
but because these applications - more than half of what it means to "workstation"Yep, mine still works good, a little issues with the YouTube app and Safari is buggy, but it otherwise is good.
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My friend also used, but only as a reader)
he bought it a year ago and are strictly for that purpose. This happened less than a book-reader
Not only do I greatly prefer iOS 6, but it's also more legible. Look at the calendar for example.
I miss iOS 6 a lot. iOS 7 brought some great features but I miss ios6.
My wife still uses our original iPad as an eBook reader. It can't handle some books because it won't run. The current versions of the reader apps and the battery is really on its last legs, but it still works and is still my favorite iPad form factor.