Hmm.. There is a long leap from iPad's not being functional and being thrown into trash cans to Apple feeling the need to spend resources "optimizing" a new iOS for hardware 3 generations old...
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Hmm.. There is a long leap from iPad's not being functional and being thrown into trash cans to Apple feeling the need to spend resources "optimizing" a new iOS for hardware 3 generations old...
Hmm.. There is a long leap from iPad's not being functional and being thrown into trash cans to Apple feeling the need to spend resources "optimizing" a new iOS for hardware 3 generations old...
iPad 2 was 2.5 years old when iOS 7 released. And iPad 3 is only half year older than iPad 4.
You played up an ever shrinking user base as a critical factor. What else would cause such?Hmm.. There is a long leap from iPad's not being functional and being thrown into trash cans to Apple feeling the need to spend resources "optimizing" a new iOS for hardware 3 generations old...
What I said is true - there aren't any new customers for iPad 3. There is an established customer base and their can only go one way - down (as people upgrade or change their iPad 3 to something newer).
I have an iPad 3; so I am sure hoping that Apple keeps updating my iPad well into the future.
But the whole point earlier was whether Apple would spend resources on "optimizing" a potential ios 8 release for the iPad 3 to make it run smooth (possibly close to the newest generation hardware). I don't see that happening - iPad 3 may have to deal with ios 8; just like iPhone 4 struggles to keep up with ios 7.
Will iPad 1.Generation get iOS 8?
Good question, I'd like to know this too. But I do know that the iPod shuffle will get iOS 8.
Σ(●ﾟдﾟ●) ... I know for sure Microsoft Surface will get iOS 8... oh... I forgot Microsoft Zune player... /s
What is the latest Newton that can run ios 8??
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How do you know iPad 2 won't? Apple was still selling it a few weeks ago.
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How do you know iPad 2 won't? Apple was still selling it a few weeks ago.
iPad 2 will absolutely get iOS 8. Apple just discontinued it, and Apple always updates products at least one time after discontinuation.
Apple was forced to update the iPhone 4 to iOS 7 last year because of the agreement between Apple and the iPhone 4 purchaser. This is because the iPhone 4 was for sale until right before the iOS 7 release. This is the same reason why the 3GS got iOS 6.
Apple has 100% guaranteed an update to iOS 8 for all A5 devices. A5 devices may not receive all the iOS 8 features.
A6 devices will get iOS 9 and will most likely get even more updates because the A6 was a major 3x leap in performance, compared to a less than 2x performance gain for all of Apple's other chips.
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Not necessarily. They have updated devices that were still sold as new up until the launch, or day of announcement, iPad 2 wont fit that mark.
They may update it because there are huge numbers in corp/edu in use.
You are right - it is every device still sold during the iOS announcement that will receive the update.
Apple still sells the iPhone 4S, 5th gen iPod, and original iPad mini, which is a smaller iPad 2. Therefore, unless Apple discontinues these before June (won't happen), Apple will update A5 devices to iOS 8.
Since it was released on 2012 with iOS 6, I would say definitely 7 and 8 and maybe 9. Rule of thumb is 2 after it's stock iOS.
Apple updated A4 iPhone 4 to iOS7, but not A4 iPad. It hasn't followed CPU in the past.
Apple has always updated devices sold during an iOS announcement to the new iOS. The iPhone 4 was being sold during the iOS 7 announcement, whereas the A4 iPad and A4 iPod touch were discontinued months before the announcement.
Apple has 100% guaranteed the iPad 4 will receive iOS 8 because Apple started up iPad 4 production again and started selling the iPad 4 again last month.
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I think the question should be more about wether it will have an acceptable performance even on iPad 4 and iPhone 4s. Because right now, I'm not really blown by the performance of iPad 4 on iOS 7.1, let alone iPad 3 which is a true disaster, very frustrating to use. So why bother to upgrade on iPad 3,4 and iPhone 4s if it will be lagging and frustrate you to a point where you just dump it for a newer one to feed Apple's growing empire.
They could easily optimize ios8 like Google did with kitkat if they wanted to, but Apple restricts everything according to their good.
They could easily optimize ios8 like Google did with kitkat if they wanted to, but Apple restricts everything according to their good.
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Have you updated to iOS 7.1.1? My iPad 4 is flying in iOS 7.1.1, the las time I really had an issue in iOS 7 was the 1st 2 releases, after that it has been smooth sailing; no lag, no freezing and Safari reloads tabs far less than it used to.
Probably. But I'm not sure it should. I guess it depends on how much more advanced iOS 8 is.
That said, I also hope that the iPad 3 doesn't get it. Same with the iPhone 4S
Sorry I intended to write "not really blown".
However I did update to 7.1.1, but possibly because I come from Nexus devices with optimized firmware, iPad 4 and iPhone 4s are still a bit sluggish for me, especially after ios 6.
Anyway, the point is wether we'll see degradation in performance again, or maybe an actual effort to optimize iOS, like they finally did with Mavericks since the introduction of crappy Lion. iOS 7 is Lion now, if you know what I mean.
Yeah. I'm positive it will but the usability will be another question. Expect some features removed.
I'd bet every penny I earn next month as well as my iPad Air that the fourth generation iPad is getting iOS 8. Was there any doubt that it would?