Why does apple slow down old devices?

I totally agree .I call it time life, It is a fact that everything we buy has a sell by date ,cars ,televisions , kitchen appliances, its all built in ,even the so-called li-on batteries .

I am of the age where you bought a product once ,and didn't expect it to break down, no insurance was required or offered and it was still working years later. As you pointed we are pushed to upgrade some times not for the best ,a lot of it is a backward step and hype . And the suckers fall for it.

smudge2 wrote:

I am of the age where you bought a product once ,and didn't expect it to break down,

So, how is your '57 Chevy running? It's never broken down? The pink GE fridge (yes, we had one when I was a kid) you bought in 1960? What about the television you bought in 1967? Still going strong?

Meg St._Clair wrote:

smudge2 wrote:

I am of the age where you bought a product once ,and didn't expect it to break down,

So, how is your '57 Chevy running? It's never broken down? The pink GE fridge (yes, we had one when I was a kid) you bought in 1960? What about the television you bought in 1967? Still going strong?

Apple slowed them down too. It's all part of the grand conspiracy for global domination.

true dat. However, I am still using my iPhone 4 and my iPad 1, and neither one of them is slow. Obviously for both of them I am not in need of the latest version of apps, and I don't download crap on them either, so I'm sure that has a lot to do with it....

Cheers,

GB

I am still using my original, 1st gen iPad, 32 GBs, as well as an old 2nd gen, 8 GBs iPod Touch.

😉

I am using my iPad 1 as a video streaming device for all of the iTunes content on external storage devices that Apple put the kibosh on this functionality with later iPad models running iOS 8 and later.

I am glad I never sold my original iPad.

I was able to put it back in service about a year, ago when I discovered Apple coded out this remote streaming ability when I upgraded to iOS 9.

This peeved me right the hill off!

I haven't heard anyone mention whether this functionality had returned in iOS 10, or not.

Based on how crummy and terrible I think iOS 10 is, so far, and the features direction that Apple has pushed iOS 10 into, plus all of the operational bugs and issues, I am going to assume that this remote storage streaming functionality has not made a return in iOS 10, to date.

I am surprised that nobody is talking about this problem. I have iPad 2, iPhone 5 and iPad Air [1st ed].

iPad 2 - is slow on iOS 8.1 , forget about iOS 10

iPhone 5 - very slow on iOS 10

iPad Air - Never upgraded after iOS 8

Bottomline, it is an open secret that Apple is intentionally slowing older devices with latest release of iOS. All people need to realize is that it is NOT meant for older devices. The big problem is the App Store apps that I paid over $750. All of that cannot run on iPad 2 [2012], such a shame.

qw008 wrote:

Bottomline, it is an open secret that Apple is intentionally slowing older devices with latest release of iOS. All people need to realize is that it is NOT meant for older devices.

Complete nonsense.

Your iPad Air should run just fine on iOS 10.

It's the only iDevice that you own that is fairly recent, has a fast CPU and 1.0 GB of RAM installed.

iOS 10.1 just got released with a decent list of bug fixes.

So, iOS 10 should run fine on iOS 10.

Updates using a computer with the latest version of iTunes to perform the update process>

Good Luck!

I have been with computers since 1991 way before Mac took off. If you don't believe me, try running Mac OS X El-Capitan on the original mac that came out in 2001/2002.

Similarly, not all of the iOS updates are meant for older devices and apple is NOT mentioning who should upgrade and who shouldn't. The worst part of all this is the paid apps. The paid and free apps NEVER works on older iOS devices if they are upgraded in the App Store to meet iOS version check > iOS 10 etc. That means, older iPads will be useless after 8-10 years in service, not surprising if that is even lesser 4-5 years old.

Technologically speaking, older iPads should run it's original iOS that it was purchased on date/year and all new iOS apps should be compatible to all older iPads. This can be done but apple is not interested keeping customers of older iOS devices happy.

Paid apps that was never updated like Monopoly by EA sports will NOT work on newer iPads either. There is a versioning problem in Apple, all aimed at latest and the greatest, more sales and profits. At some point, people will say - enough is enough. No more gadgets, unless I absolutely need one.

The paid and free apps NEVER works on older iOS devices if they are upgraded in the App Store to meet iOS version check > iOS 10 etc

Then I would suggest your beef is with the overall concept of software development and personal computing itself.

Should we all rant and rave at Microsoft and Lotus/Visicalc for making my paid-for copy of Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS essentially incompatible with their constant need and drive for improvement? Pitch a fit because my source for 8" floppies has dried up?

I'm sure I could kludge some way to keep running DOS 5 (and thereby my paid-for copy of Lotus 1-2-3) on my latest PC, but at what "cost"?

Microsoft spent a great deal of effort to maintain backwards compatibility over the years and, in order to move forward, had to halt that mindset.

The problems about app compatibility are real. There just not the result of a conspiracy (the thought that started this discussion) by any party involved. To suggest a conspiracy means believing that any one party to all of this knew or knows where the app market will be in 3/4/5 years.

Absurd.

Having vision and watching trends are one thing. Knowing and acting on that knowledge are another.

Sorry I hadn't replied earlier, these forums were down earlier and I lost track of time.

I am trying to follow some of your logic on this but,you aren't making entire sense to me.

For starters, your "beef" is not, directly, with Apple, but with the software app developers.

These are the people that determine what minimum IOS version they want their app/s to continue to support.

NOT Apple.

Their are quite a few iOS developers that still support their apps on iDevices that still support iOS 4.2.1 as a minimum IOS version.

And I am not sure what you are alluding to, but older iPads DO run newer versions of iOS apps as long as the developers of those apps are still willing to develop their apps for those much older iOS versions.

So, if you choose to leave your iDevice on a previous, older iOS version, at the app, in question, still supports this minimum iOS that your device is still running on, you'll still be able to use this app and will get as many of the app/s updated features, as possible for that iDevice!

Some developers don't want to keep backward compatibility for their apps all the way back, to say iOS 4 or 5.

Most developers go back to, at least, iOS 7.

As far as old or "orphaned"apps working on new iPad models, old dpp continue to still work on newer iPads.

I have around 8 or 9 of these types a very old apps and orphaned ones, as well, (these apps go all the way back to the time of the 1st, original iPad and the iPad 2 ) and these still work on my largiPad Pro.

So, I am not sure where you got information from or how you formulated your observations and your opinions, but you are clearly in error in some of this information.

What iDevice do you own?

Becuase you sound like you might be an owner of the 1st generation iPad that is still bitter about it being halted at iOS 5.1.1 only after one year and has not purchased any new iPad ever since?

I don't know.

All I know is that your are in error about the many things you posted about here.

About a year, ago, I just found new life for my 1st generation iPad and the a good chunk of the apps that are still available for it, while much older versions, stil work and function as they should on my 6 year old device.

If you have/had a newer iPad, you would know that many of your statements in either, inaccurate or in error.

Good Luck to you.

Hi

Why is this question still on forum the answer is simple

New apple devices work faster tech will always be improved

It just jike a car or tv things get better.

And as apps get faster older divces cannot run ios 10

Cheers

Brian

If you read the original post, he mentioned iPads and also his sisters laptop slowing down. I only use apple phones and tablets, so I have nothing to compare those to. However I do have a MacBook, iMac, and a PC. My point was, if it is so normal for computers to slow down with updates, then why hasn't my PC slowed down? I meantioned by PC because it's the only think I can compare Apple products too. My PC acted no different from windows 10 from windows 7. I am just wondering why that would be since it doesn't fall in line with everyone's reason on here for why Apple products slow down. I just don't think it's ok for a laptop to be brick slow after having it for three years after updating to the newest software.

Well, an iOS device is not a computer, so you can't really compare one to the other. I have gone from Mountain Lion to El Capitan to Yosemite to Sierra on my Mac and it runs exactly the way it did when I purchased it. My old iPhone 1, however, is inherently slower than my iPhone 5s.

iOS devices are relatively new in the tech world, so they are continuing to evolve. Computers have been around in relatively widespread use since the late 70's. I'm sure that you would find that earlier iterations of personal computers were much slower than current ones. It's part of the growth cycle.

Cheers,

GB

There is not enough difference between Win 7 and Win 10 to slow down your machine. Try running Win 10 on a Pentium and see how that works out. Eventually the software begins to require performance that older hardware cannot provide. See if you can ruin Windows 12 or 14 on your current computer in a few years. The real problem is not the cycle, it's that Apple lets you update to an iOS version they should know will slow your older model down--sort of a hardware Peter principle. Worse yet, they don't let you downgrade to the last version that worked well on your device. Microsoft does.