“Apple quietly spelt the end of two of its most popular devices at its Worldwide Developer’s Conference on Monday night,” Cara McGoogan reports for The Telegraph.
“The company announced the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 11, at the annual event, introducing a new phone-to-phone payment method and a safe driving mode,” McGoogan reports. “It also features a tweaked design for the iPad that looks more like the Mac operating system.”
“But iOS 11 comes with a caveat. It only works on 64-bit devices, meaning that older Apple products will not be able to upgrade to the new system, rendering them obsolete,” McGoogan reports. “Affected devices include the iPhone 5, released in 2012, and the iPhone 5c, released in 2013… The iPad 4, released in 2012, is also excluded from the list of devices that can upgrade.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Time marches on. If you’re not 64-bit, it’s time to plan to become so soon!
iOS 11 is compatible with these devices:
• iPhone 7 Plus
• iPhone 7
• iPhone 6s Plus
• iPhone 6s
• iPhone 6 Plus
• iPhone 6
• iPhone SE
• iPhone 5s
• 12.9-inch iPad Pro (2nd gen.)
• 12.9-inch iPad Pro (1st gen.)
• 10.5-inch iPad Pro
• 9.7-inch iPad Pro
• iPad Air 2
• iPad Air
• iPad (5th gen.)
• iPad mini 4
• iPad mini 3
• iPad mini 2
• iPod touch (6th gen.)
No place to comment on the iPad Pro + iOS 11 poll, so I’m doing it here:
Those of us who have already bought one would answer “No effect”, but that would make it look like we have no interest, when in fact we were interested enough even before those things were there. I definitely can’t wait to put iOS 11 on mine!
How exactly does not being able to upgrade to the latest version of iOS render that device obsolete?
Does anyone remember the days when journalists had some mere amount of intelligence and perspective? Well, the tranny retard Cara McGoogan most certainly does not.
Agree. I’m writing this on an “end of the line” iPad 4, while my iPhone 5S just barely makes the cut. The latter is still running iOS 8, and I’ve hesitated to upgrade given how trouble-free it is. Meanwhile, in the other room I’ve got an iMac purchased nine years ago this month. Still running and meeting my modest needs.
I don’t even remember what my iPhone old 4 is running, but it still serves well running iTunes and 64GB of music as a jukebox for my car stereo
A lot of apps require a certain version of iOS. In the case of banking apps, your bank may stop allowing you to continue to use older versions of their app, so if you can’t run the new version, your iPhone can no longer be used for that task.
App by app, old iPhones become obsolete once they can’t run the newest version of IOS.
I guess it’s your bank that stops support of older iOS App, or does not maintain a version for older IOS, not Apple
I agree completely with the first sentence of your post. This logical error has been repeated so many times over the years. Many Apple products remain functional and useful for a long time.
Your last sentence removed four stars…
Any device that no longer supports the latest version of its operating system, is obsolete..
Does that mean you cannot use it, of course not, but eventually, and probably very fast now, 64 bit apps probably won’t work on older devices, so you better load them up with everything you might ever want to use. Could be wrong, but it would not surprise me… time marches on… Time to upgrade, and you might even like it..