IIn response to petermac87.
Thanks for the reply. I sent feedback thru the link you keep giving before I posted here. I understand that they tell us they can't respond to the feedback...except they're an extraordinary company, not ordinary...
The the fix on the previous page didn't work. It takes two to three seconds for the double click on the home button to take effect. It used to be instantaneous. And it started the moments after I installed Ios8, so im convinced I didn't magically develop a hardware fault the same day I installed the new OS...
i guess for me, and many others, the disappointment is that this represents the first step in contemplating leaving a long and happy relationship. The default mode for me has always been to buy the next Mac model. I was planning to get the new iPad when it comes out next week, and now I find myself reading reviews of other devices. I like the interoperability, the reliability and the sheer class of Apple, but it's taken a battering in the last few weeks!
i will take this iPad in to the Genius Bar and see what they say...our iPad mini, and newer generation iPad seem to be faring well, but my little daughter doesn't get to inherit this ipad in place of her gen 1 ipad (which is forever stuck on iOS 5.1.1, and is essentially obsolete because new apps won't run on it, and it can't be updated to ios6....and 17 app updates it keeps telling her about cannot happen, because they need ios6)...
Enough already. But seriously, Apple needs to learn from the mistakes of IBM, Microsoft and others...