8 Sep
2023
8 Sep
'23
6:48 p.m.
On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 19:23, Wayne S <wayne.sudol(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
I have an ipad 3 and it was absolutely great. Everything worked well on it until apple 🍎
made IOS 10 which doesn’t run on it. Then, gradually, some apps, like Amazon Prime TV,
were upgraded to use 10 and above and simply stopped working.
It is funny you should say that: I have one too, and just today, I dug
it out of its pouch for the first time since July.
I had left it on! But it was in airplane mode, and so still had 15%
battery. Amazing.
I am trying to work out how to put my assortment of PDFs onto it so I
can use it as an ebook reader. This is... not trivial.
It was my mother's. When it was no longer able to run Skype, I bought
her an iPad 5th Gen instead. This is the first model with the iPad Air
form-factor.
Her eyesight is very bad now -- retinal haemorrhage plus macular
degeneration -- so then I got her a first-model iPad Pro. But, to my
surprise, she prefers the smaller one, as it's much lighter to hold.
I asked for and was given the cast-off iPad 3.
I probably won’t buy another Ipad just because of
that.
Well, I see your point. The device is badly crippled now, yes.
Especially as I preferred iOS 9 -- the newer ones have a lot of bloat,
like window tiling and pop-up floating windows, that just confuse her.
I can see being aggrieved by the discontinuation of support.
Personally I don't like the things much but I am trying to find a use
for this old one. But if I _liked_ it, that's different.
FWIW I always buy them used, from these guys: https://webuy.com/ The
company was founded by a friend of mine, sadly long dead now.
Liem, sorry about your forearm. Get well and keep
writing ✍️
Thank you!
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