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Originally Posted by Hitch
Nonetheless, that's (the years) pretty impressive. When you're going to spend that type of dough, knowing that something is going to last is, to me, important. It infuriates me that my $1K first-gen iPad is now basically an unsupported paperweight that can't run most of the apps I want to use, because Apple quite deliberately abandoned it.
Hitch
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Ummm...oookay. You do realize that the early iterations of the PC were even worse, right? I got a good couple years out of the original iPad....but I haven't updated my home PC in many years. Wasn't true back when PC's were just new. Every iteration was far more powerful than the one before, and thus the software written for it wouldn't work well on the older models.
I haven't bought a new PC to get "more power to run the latest apps" in 10 years. I buy them now when the old ones break down in such a way that it's cheaper for new than investing more money in old computers.
Tablets are simply at a much earlier point in the maturity cycle, and the iPad one is really "version 1" of the modern tablet era