iPad one and it's guarantee! uk only.

Please be aware that you are not communicating with Apple when you post in these forums. These are user-to-user support forums, so in almost all cases the only people who will reply to your posts are, like me, your fellow users.

As such Apple must make provision to repair any iPad that does not function according to its original intended use.

You can get the iPad 1 replaced if it is defective. I see no indication, however, that your iPad is defective, only that the developers of the apps you wish to run have upgraded them to be compatible only with later versions of iOS. The iPad 1 does function according to the original intended use. It runs the same version of iOS that it came with, and runs the same apps that it did at that time, which is almost certainly all that was promised when you purchased the iPad. In fact, it functions beyond the original intended use since Apple provided two major upgrades to iOS. Hence any UK law requiring six years of support would seem to have been fulfilled to date.

You will therefore be very unlikely to have any legal claim to make. If you wish to hire an attorney and try to make a claim for a new iPad, though, you are well within your rights to do so, but I very much doubt that you will get anywhere.

Regards.

The iPad 1 was released in April 2010, and discontinued in March of 2011. If you bought one less than one year ago, then you purchased a product that was already officially discontinued by the OEM and no longer sold directly by the OEM. One year ago from this month, not only was the iPad 1 officially discontinued, but so was the iPad 3 - at this time last year, the only current production models were the iPad 2 and the iPad 4.

Does UK law cover a discontinued product purchased well after the original product manufacturer has dropped it from their product line? It surely cannot cover items purchased as used years after they have been discontinued?