News - Apple iOS 6 maybe great for some, not for orig. iPad owners

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The firm implements its common practice of removing the lowest common denominator.

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Similar architectures yes, but not similar spec. The original iPad only has a single-core processor and half as much RAM (256MB) as the iPad 2.

EDIT: Apologies, misread the article.

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Originally Posted by CSF90

Similar architectures yes, but not similar spec. The original iPad only has a single-core processor and half as much RAM (256MB) as the iPad 2.

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They are comparing the ipad to the iphone 3gs, not ipad 2. The iphone 3gs does not sport a duel core CPU. This is purely a move to make people ditch their old device and fork out for a new ipad if they wish to use modern apps.

Here's what those people should do, stick two fingers up at Apple.

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Originally Posted by Brewster0101

They are comparing the ipad to the iphone 3gs, not ipad 2. The iphone 3gs does not sport a duel core CPU. This is purely a move to make people ditch their old device and fork out for a new ipad if they wish to use modern apps.

Here's what those people should do, stick two fingers up at Apple.

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Oops, my apologies. That will teach me for skim-reading an article.

To be fair, the iPad is coming up to 2 years old now - how many devices realistically still get software updates with lots of new features 2 years after release? Android phones (for example) don't.

I think Apple have been 'generous' in giving the 3GS (coming up to 3 years old now) so many software updates over the years, even to the devices detriment. The iPhone 3GS is clearly not powerful enough to run the more demanding iOS 4 or 5 and as a result it's much slower/laggy, which has caused people to complain, so I can only assume that iOS 6 will provide even more of a performance hit.

My iPod Touch 3rd gen has been very well supported, despite the age. I can't tell from the article if iOS 6 will be supported or not. Fair enough if not - it does have quite significantly lesser specs than the equivalent iPhone.

I'm suprise it does not support iPad 1.... Apple wants you to upgrade. I'm quite happily using it with IOS 5..

Apple in making you upgrade shocker? This has been going on for years by nearly all manufacturers....and I'm sure someone will find a way to hack it on anyway...

Good to see apple learning from microsoft.