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Originally Posted by EditorOne
I know it's an obsolete tablet, and I have no plans for using it beyond checking the files that clients want to upload to iTunes. As a functional device for looking at books I've created for iBooks, it should work okay. I have no delusions that it will do anything else for me. I only paid a pittance for it. It was a risk, but since I now know that my client can publish through iTunes without issues, that might be worth it. It's just part of my device collection for ebook production and quality control along with my Kindle, Nook, and my Android tablet with multiple ereader apps (and all the bells and whistles). Thanks.
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But that's the problem. A 1st gen iPad is USELESS for checking files your clients want to upload to iTunes. It won't run the current iBooks and it won't run ant apps that need iOS 6 or later. Even some apps it does run don't run well and crash. For example, there is not enough memory to run most apps that need to connect to Facebook you need to run both the game app and the Facebook app and that causes a crash.
iBooks on a 1st gen iPad is functionally different to the current version. What you see with the old obsolete iBooks might not be what someone with the current version would see. So it is worthless for what you want. You cannot check your client's work using that obsolete version of iBooks. You need to have a device that runs the current iBooks. A 1st gen iPad isn't it and it never will be. You cannot see what they see. You cannot give then suggestions on how to fix things as things that might look broken to you might not be on the current iBooks. So no, a 1st gen iPad will not do what you need/want it to do. It won't show you things the way you want and it won't work with a lot of apps that are iOS 5 compatible. It's best use is as a large paperweight.
Sorry, but you cannot use a 1st gen iPad and be of any use to your clients. You are doing your clients a major disservice if you don't trash that iPad and get a new one.