Your post should be deleted on the basis of extreme lameness. Coming to an Apple community to tell everyone your trumped up and inaccurate excuses for hating on the iPad. Newsflash.
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Why I Will Never Buy An Ipad
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Your post should be deleted on the basis of extreme lameness. Coming to an Apple community to tell everyone your trumped up and inaccurate excuses for hating on the iPad. Newsflash.
NOBODY...CARES...
You're confusing "last" with "supported by latest releases". There's a big difference. Your iPad is lasting just fine. In any case, good luck with your arbitrary expectations. Apple has never made any such guarantees so I'm not sure where you're getting your expectations from. The failure here is your due diligence. If you want the latest tech then buy the latest tech. Don't buy the older generation and simply expect to have the same experience as you would on the latest generation.
I kept my original 1st gen iPad, and since then I've bought four iPad 2 models for the family. While not perfect, nothing is. I like the convenience and that it does most of what I'd like it to do. That's all I expect since I can see through Apple's Hype. The key is to not take them seriously, they can't help themselves.
Wow, this is funny, as I have the opposite view.
I was/am actually annoyed that there is not a lot of software that will only run on the iPad2 and that's the reason I have not upgraded as there seems almost no point to doing so.
I hate new devices being held back technically due to some need to be backwards compatible.
I'd rather Apple say, well we could of make it backwards compatible, but then it would only be twice as fast. Instead we have made it totally from scratch brand new, it's totally incompatible, but it's 10x the speed of the last one.
That would do it for me, and what used to happen in the past.
Say from a Commodore 64 to an Amiga. the Amiga was not crippled as it had to run old C64 code. No one really would of wanted that.
Anyway, please fill me in, as I say, I have not bought an iPad2 as apart from a little quicker, a rotten camera, and arguable cheaper build quality there seemed almost zero reason to.
Where is this 50% of jaw dropping awesome software that I'm missing out on?
I was/am actually annoyed that there is not a lot of software that will only run on the iPad2 and that's the reason I have not upgraded as there seems almost no point to doing so.
I hate new devices being held back technically due to some need to be backwards compatible.
I'd rather Apple say, well we could of make it backwards compatible, but then it would only be twice as fast. Instead we have made it totally from scratch brand new, it's totally incompatible, but it's 10x the speed of the last one.
That would do it for me, and what used to happen in the past.
Say from a Commodore 64 to an Amiga. the Amiga was not crippled as it had to run old C64 code. No one really would of wanted that.
Anyway, please fill me in, as I say, I have not bought an iPad2 as apart from a little quicker, a rotten camera, and arguable cheaper build quality there seemed almost zero reason to.
Where is this 50% of jaw dropping awesome software that I'm missing out on?
I get the feeling this is a gaming issue. All of the software I use runs faster on the iPad2 with fewer crashes. But, I think that comes from the processor, more memory, etc. I could have lived with the iPad1, but as I do a lot of presentations, the iPad2 is simply far better suited (mirroring). I think software can be backwards compatible and still show improvements in performance.
Fewer crashes?
I think in 18 months an Apps has crashed my iPad twice only.
Speed wise, in the little video's I saw, there did not seem THAT much difference. A couple of seconds for an app to load type of things, and a tiny tiny bit quicker scrolling here and there.
Games wise, I know some have higher res textures where you put them side by side and compare them, but when actually moving along I'm not sure it's a night and day difference in quality.
I may get an iPad 3, depending on what else is out there at the time it's launched, as I'm hoping around that time, real new iPad3 software will be enough of a step up from the iPad1 that it's actually worth the upgrade.
Well, in my case I crashed apps on a daily/weekly basis with PDFs. I think it wasn't only a RAM problem, but that at least seems to have been a factor. The same PDFs open perfectly fine on my iPad 2. Same app, completely different experience.
Speed differences are huge. A second or two is a lot, especially when you are standing in front of a hundred people giving a presentation.
A page change on a PDF that took (for example) 2 seconds and now takes 1 is VERY noticeable.
No. It is probably not enough to upgrade for most people. But, I wouldn't minimize the differences. When the iPad1 was already light and fast, even an incremental tiny change, percentage-wise is a huge difference. Some people will care. Some people won't.
I have an iPad 2 but I have never seen any games which are not compatible with the iPad 1 except for one game Machinarium but I was told by people on here that it was only because the Devs were lazy when coding this app.
THen maybe the OP should spring for a HP touchpad. It can't get any more outdated than it already is...
Actually, the TP software is still being updated. And the hardware is technically already faster than anything on the Market with a 1 5ghz chip that can overclock to 1.8. You can now port Android to it as well, but that is still buggy as hell.
So many idiotic responses on this thread. He bought an ipad, only to have it be replaced by Apple a year later. Apple made the ipad obsolete. Don't blame the developers for not developing for something that Apple essentially abandoned, because only a year later Apple did a redesign with all improved hardware.
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Search for how many complaints there are of how sluggish the ipad ran on ios 4. Haha, I guess because they were able to upgrade, it means that Apple still cared.
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Search for how many complaints there are of how sluggish the ipad ran on ios 4. Haha, I guess because they were able to upgrade, it means that Apple still cared.
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How about a: "why we don't care what you do" thread?
Why do people feel compelled to say what they will and will not do? Who really gives a rat's kester? Buy or don't buy. Try not to be so co-dependent on others that you feel the need to share utterly useless info with the world.
Technology advances, that's kind of the whole point. As mentioned, your gripe should be with the developers and not Apple. iOS 5 works on the iPad 1. But just like with the phones not all features are available on the older hardware. Go ahead and go pick up and Android tablet. Software updates on those are always fast and it doesn't suffer from any OS fragmentation at all, everyone runs the latest version of the OS.
LOL. This is just wrong. He bought an iPad. It was not replaced by Apple. Apple came out with a new version. It happens every year with every manufacturer for every device. Welcome to the 21st century.
Apple made the iPad obsolete the same way that the 2012 Prius made the 2011 one obsolete. They both run just fine on iOS 4 (where is this sluggishness) and on iOS 5. Apple didn't abandon it. They just updated its operating system for free! How evil of apple to support their products throughout their life cycles?
Apple doesn't make the apps. Developers do. The OP is blaming Apple for the developers. Some developers make a concerted effort to support their 1 and 2 customers. Others don't. Don't buy from the latter.
Wow! Someone actually managed to come up with a post lamer and more clueless than the OP's. Quite an achievement, that is!
Don't forget the golden rule of technology:
"It still does at least what it did when you bought it."
And, with software updates, it keeps doing so much more
"It still does at least what it did when you bought it."
And, with software updates, it keeps doing so much more