Is the iPod Touch 2nd Gen no longer usable? Is this what is store for all Apple products?

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Is the iPod Touch 2nd Gen no longer usable? Is this what is store for all Apple products?

I am very disheartened with Apple. I have loved the iPod touchs up until now. It seems the iPod Touch 2nd Gen no longer download apps that work on the 4.2.1 iOS. I was just selling my wife on Apple products and now this has shut her and I down on all Apple products. I hope I am wrong but is Apple partaking in planned obsolesence? If so, planned obsolesence is not marketing and I will be looking at other brands when it comes to electronic devices. If not, how do you download apps for an iPod touch 2nd gen running a max iOS of 4.2.1? Thank you.

iPod touch, iOS 4, iOS 4.2

Posted on Apr 6, 2013 3:28 PM

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lllaass

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Apr 6, 2013 3:37 PM in response to mrhitch

That is called progress. The personal electronics field is advancing fast and as a result, older products can't do what the newer ones do.

Who should I complain to since my 386 computer can't run windows 8?

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Apr 6, 2013 4:05 PM in response to lllaass

I have an old 286 PC machine that still runs the MS software that I paid for and the DBase III programs that I created and compiled with Clipper 87. My iPod touch 2nd gen crashes constantly when it runs apps that I paid for...hence forcing me to buy a new iPod touch. Not exactly the same story you're trying to site.

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mrhitch Author

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Apr 6, 2013 4:07 PM in response to lllaass

I'm not trying to run Windows 8, I'm trying to run the old apps I paid for and Apple no longer supports.

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mrhitch Author

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Apr 6, 2013 4:34 PM in response to lllaass

An example, I had a weather app that worked beautifully until recently it locked up and crashed constantly. I deleted it thinking I can re-down load it. When I tried to re-down load it the Apps store told me that I must have a higher iOS. This is something I already paid for!!!! I don't want the new one, I want the old one. Why doesn't Apple still sell the old ones? The shelf life is forever for electrons.

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May 6, 2013 11:08 AM in response to mrhitch

Don't despair Look at "Vintapps" in the Apple app store. It has tons of available apps for all those earlier ios devices. And you can download them right to your ios device. Many are free.

Although I wrote this 99 cent app specifically to help solve this problem, I need to add that "I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link."

Be sure to keep backups of older software. Once an app is updated, the older version is no longer available to be downloaded from Apple.

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