Q: The IOS 8.0.2 "upgrade" has ruined my iPad 2 and iPad Air. Will Apple be implementing a fix to the problems- it is the most ridiculous upgrade ever!

Still waiting for the useful comment....

The only useful comment would be that technology advances. Any electronic device you buy becomes outdated as soon as you walk out of the door of the store. That is the reality. You or I may not like it, but it is what it is. And, "consumerism" demands more "features", "bells & whistles", etc., so the manufacturers comply and come out with yet another "better, faster, slimmer, fatter, larger, smaller" device. You can run your older device as long as it does what you want it to do - you do NOT need to update anything; however, in todays' hacker and scammer world, your device will not be as secure as a newer one with the latest security measures built into the OS. I am running an iMac with an "outdated" OS because some of the apps I like to use are not supported in the latest OS version; that will work for a while, but certainly not indefinitely.

Thank you for your comments - I agree with you that technology becomes dated very quickly as users demand more functionality and processing power to run increasingly complex applications and handle more data. After a 30 year career in the IT field, I do understand this. My difficulty, however, is that Apple actively encourages users to upgrade the iOS, and newer versions simply do not perform adequately on older devices, thus rendering them almost useless, nor do they provide a means to reinstall an older version of the OS to fix the problem (unlike the competition). My computing needs are very simple and pedestrian, and my iPad 2 served them very well, at least until I foolishly and regrettably upgraded the OS. I find it discouraging and disheartening that there seems to be no solution to my dilemna, aside from buying a new iPad to do exactly the same simple tasks that I did with my perfectly fine iPad 2 before the OS upgrade. While I love Apple products, I do not like the way Apple forces customers to buy new devices simply to support their new OS. At the very least they should allow customers to revert to an older OS, even if it's one that is no longer supported by Apple.

Unfortunately, Apple has never done that - it's been the same with any Mac computer: you cannot go backwards and new Macs cannot be booted with any OS version older than what they came with; although, with Mac OS, you can make a full bootable backup clone and, if necessary, erase your hard drive and clone the older system back. That has never been available on iOS devices though, so we're stuck - either update or refuse it.

Most people aren't having trouble with IOS 9 on older devices. Unfortunately all updaes have problems. Usually simple trouble shooting steps correcr them.