ios 6 not compatible for ipad 1?, ios 6 not compatible for ipad 1?

iOS 6 is not bloated. It adds a number of features that users requested and an even larger number of APIs that developers requested. The iPad 1 is just very limitied in RAM and unlike a PC or MAC you can't add any to it.

And why would analysts downgrade the stock based on buyers having to upgrade? They didn't do so when the iPhone 2G was capped out at 3.1.3. They didn't do so when the iPhone 3G was limited to 4.2.1. So what would be the difference now? Because you have an iPad 1 and now YOU are affected?

Stock prices have nothing to do with sales, or customer loyalty, and often it isn't even related to revenue. A tsunami somewhere or a riot in China will have far more to do with. And in the current case analysts concern that the smartphone and tablet markets are saturated in developed markets and the only growth available is 3rd world countries where Apple performs poorly. That is the reason for the stock drop.

.....with this profound and revolutionary vision of the workings of the stock markets and share price developments I suggest you write an investment guide and make millions. Stupid management in my company is still busy trying to improve sales when what we really should be thinking about is how to instigate or prevent riots and Tsunamis.......

There is nothing profound or revolutionary about what I wrote if one pays attention to what is going on, reads and follows some analysts. And Apple sales are up over the same period that the stock is losing value. It just isn't up high enough to suit a number of analysts and they are concerned about the future with saturation as I already posted.

I sold most of my Apple stock when in it was in the high $600s as I also felt it had become overvvalued and could not sustain that price level. I also sold some stock in hard drive manufacturers and other computer makers when the tsunamis hit that limited the availability of hard drives and raised the prices of them thus impacting the price of computers.

If you cannot understand these things you should stay out of the market.

Certainly not a sloppy coder who keeps everything in RAM, because it takes a little more expertise and effort.

deggie wrote:

I sold most of my Apple stock when in it was in the high $600s

What are you trying to do, rub it in? 😉

I have no idea what this statement means. Are you saying if they are really goo coders the iOS 10 should run in 256MB of RAM?

I used to run UNIX on a PDP11 with merely 128k of RAM (yes that's KB, not MB. We would swap modules in and out of RAM as needed. When the VAXes came along with dynamic memory allocation, all of a sudden, sloppy code led to increased memory demands. and the OS took on the burden of swapping and paging. With the VAx, you could get a MB.

SO WITH 256 times the RAM in a VAX, you can't program in IOS (which is based on UNIX)?????

Yes, I am apparently also as old as you are. I also used to walk 25 miles to school in the snow...one way, cars were better, yada, yada, yada.

How much GUI use were you doing on the PDP? Actually just getting iOS 5.1.1. to run on the iPad 1 was pretty tight programming. And it has been my experience that people who throw around the term "sloppy programming" without knowing any details weren't really good at it themselves or wrote pretty lame code.

What makes you think iOS is based on UNIX? It does not use the UNIX file system, peripheral access, etc. It has as much Pixo in it as is has OS X, if not more. They are tending to grow together but with the recent executive shuffle that may be slowed down. And the sandboxed nature of iOS requires much more to be done within RAM due to security restrictions.

If you go back that far then you are quite familiar with the bleeding edge and version one products and the risk therein so none of this should really surprise you at all.

OSX comes from BSD UNIX. Steve Jobs brought it over to Apple from his NeXt Machine endeavor.

OS X came from Darwin UNIX. I agree with the second sentence.

iDevices do not run OS X.

IOS. ... IS. ... based on UNIX! I's right in Apple's documentation at this URL: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/ipad/#documentation/iphone/conceptual/iph oneosprogrammingguide/TheiOSEnvironment/TheiOSEnvironment.html

And as I said, and this is very important, it does not use the same file system and a few other notable differences from the UNIX file system. This along with the sandboxing limits the use of swap space.

Give it up: Sandboxing only limits the number of simultaneous apps (unless a single poorly written big *** app can't fit in the entire space). UNIX has been run on a variety of file systems over the years. There's even a whole book on the subject :

UNIX Filesystems: Evolution, Design, and Implementation

Steve D. Pate

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Richie.abc wrote:

Sandboxing only limits the number of simultaneous apps

In the context of iOS, "sandboxing" also refers to the fact than individual apps have limited to no access to information from other apps. Perhaps it's not the same in Unix.

But sandboxing as an argument against using a swap space doesn't work, because swap is a part of OS memory management, which is transparent to all processes, whether they run in a sandbox or not.

Neither filesystem type is a restriction: swap can reside on a different partition or in a file of any filesystem.