“Here’s an interesting fact: Every iPad that Apple had sold, with the exception of the iPad 1 (which first went on sale in April 2010 and was discontinued a year later, and over that time some 15 million units were sold), can run the latest iOS release,” Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports for ZDNet.
“At yesterday’s WWDC 2016 keynote speech, that all changed,” Kingsley-Hughes reports. “Apple announced that it was dropping support for three aging iPads: the iPad 2, the iPad 3, and the first-generation iPad mini.”
“That means that come fall when iOS 10 is released, million of iPads will become obsolete,” Kingsley-Hughes reports. “How many? Well, according to data compiled back in March 2016 by mobile engagement platform Localytics, it could mean that some 40 percent of all iPads currently in use will become obsolete because they will no longer receive security updates and patches.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Those iPad will still continue to work just the same as they do today (and better than when they were first purchased thanks to myriad iOS updates). As always, if you want the latest features, services, and updates, you have to upgrade your hardware sometime.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]