Friends Kingdom: Re: [iPad] Apple Releases iOS 8.1.2, It Will Anger Users

No, not surprised, Jim. Business as usual. Microsoft, too, uses OS upgrades to push hardware upgrades.

As I said - buy or die.

There's nothing really bad about that. It's justifiable. I would be happier if iDevice hardware had a much longer usable lifetime, but that's not the way this market works. Buy, buy, buy.

- ipdt5

On Dec 11, 2014, at 7:29 PM, Jim Saklad jimdoc@icloud.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

David Smith wrote:
> The only good solution to iOS8 is an A8X chip. Sigh. Buy or die.

Christopher Collins asked:
> And this statement is based on what?

David Smith replied:
> Experience. My iPad Air 2 and iPhone 6+ are fine.
> The iPod Touch is slow and jerky.

According to MacTracker, even the newest, Mid-2013, 5th generation iPod Touch (1) has only an A5 chip (i.e., not even an A6 or A7).

So: you have 2 latest-model devices running iOS 8 on A8 or A8x CPUs, and 1 trying to run it on an A5 chip, and the latter 1 is a lot slower than the former 2.

And you are surprised about that?

An A5 device is the *minimal* system capable of running iOS 8, and Apple notified us of that fact when it released iOS 8.

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