I think my iPad Pro is 6 or 7 years old and still receiving the latest iPadOS updates. Apple are one of the best for the time they support new OS versions on phone and tablet devices, and all devices eligible get updates at the same time whereas on Android you generally have to wait to see if the manufacturer will support it and it could take a year or more.

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Technology moves so fast!

Anything over two years old is, it would appear, out of date.

I think like everything you have to know when its the right time to upgrade, the average time people keep a mobile phones in the UK is 4 years and I think thats about right.

Devices may be superseded but in my opinion it doesn't mean they are obsolete, If you have a legacy device and you're not bothered by the throughput of the wifi then no need to worry but once you are doing speed tests and complaining to your ISP about slowness then you are clearly not happy with the wifi of the device and should upgrade it.

Edited by deleted (Mon 14-Aug-23 17:45:18)

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Anything over two years old is, it would appear, out of date.

Depends how you define out of date. My company says we can use any iPhone/iPad still getting security updates. Whereas they have had to set a 2 year rule for Android as so many devices don't get updates. The directors don't want a client to sue the company because of an unpatched security hole.

What you may not have realised is a 10 year old laptop with 1st Gen Core i3 CPU can easily keep up with higher WiFi speeds, but tablets (and phones) have been dramatically changing in technology for the last 10 years. This has probably ended now, just incremental change, not dramatic jumps.

The 2018 iPad Pro 11" 1st edition with the A12 CPU will be pretty close in WiFi speeds to the end of 2022 model iPad Pro 11" 4th edition, but the original iPad Pro 9.7" from 2016 won't keep up at all.

How long people keep things and when they become out of date is two different things.

All the while something does the job there is no need to upgrade, but when it starts to give you problems ....

So, like a lot of things, it varies.

Trouble with something like speed is you don't notice a gradual reduction. When you are used to 1Mbps (ADSL) then you are forced to pay for a ten fold increase (fibre) and don't get it, you question why.

Edited by hk11 (Mon 14-Aug-23 23:37:43)

You keep saying that, with no justification whatsoever. Exactly what about a two year old iPad is out of date ?

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When you are used to 1Gbps (ADSL)

Did you mean this?

Edit: You are the first person I can ever recall who clearly prefers ADSL (ADSL2+ max 24Mbps) over full fibre, you may want to think about why you stand alone with that opinion. I also know one person on here who prefers FTTC over full fibre and he also stands out from the crowd with all his opinions.

Edited by deleted (Mon 14-Aug-23 22:08:59)

No, clearly a typo. Upload on ADSL was in Mbps not Gbps. Have corrected.

It’s not a case of preferring ADSL per say; just that it did the job. But I suppose you could say that about most older communication? I wouldn’t want to go back to dialup, but on the other hand what is being gained by pushing all this data around at even greater speeds? Emails of a few lines used to do the job, now it’s a couple of pages of html most of which is advertising!

If your uploaded emails are being affected because of the amount of advertising you include in them, you certainly need to do something about it.

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Emails of a few lines used to do the job, now it’s a couple of pages of html most of which is advertising!

You can with many companies these days elect to receive plain text mail, and opt out of marketing communications.