Apple offers part fix to new apple updates

Apple offers part fix to new apple updates

Here's apples own article



https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206203

 

Thanks for another useful link! Apple should just wait on dishing out their updates

BTW-I got my previous problem with the iPad solved, even figured out how to get my messages on the laptop! I feel so smart now, haha..

 

Good for you!!!

Self taught myself, when all this was in it's infancy many years ago, good old
trial, and error, most of the knowledge stays with you.

 

That was fast! Thanks for the link!

I'd still wait. In no hurry. None of the apps I installed require update at the moment. It is funny that iPad 2 got it's own separate solution! I imagine that iPad 2 will be left out of the update bandwagon soon.

 

Oh yeah, you can count on that! But not before they decide to cripple it with a last OS update that will basically render your device useless like they did with iOS 5 on the first generation iPad, a perfectly functioning product suddenly becomes a brick after a minor update that arrives just at the same time a new generation of that device is unveiled. Pretty convenient for Apple if you thing about it, that's planned obsolescence at its finest. That's why I don't waste money on tablets, tablets are terrible investments unless you have money to burn, sadly laptops are becoming the same since they are getting harder to upgrade and expand.

 

Agreed. I think that applies to everything else - with about almost any other electronic device, not just smartphones and laptops. In my uneducated opinion, the PC/Smartphone industry is the root cause of this problem. Technology just grows so fast at the same rate the previous generations lose their value. A thousand dollar Nokia phone 5 years ago is not worth a cent today. A two thousand dollar gaming laptop 5 years ago can't even play the newest games at mainstream settings. The lifespan of GPUs and CPUs of desktops is quite short, about 4-5 years. Of course, I don't mean lifespan in terms of use, they don't die that easily (could take a few decades lol) but more on obsolescence. Because of that, I believe it is wise to not buy flagship devices unless you really have extra money to spend. Again, this is just my uneducated opinion.

Two of the few electronic devices that I could think of that don't lose their value over time are headphones and speakers. I know a headphone model manufactured 25 years ago that still works fine today and can be compared to the newest headphones. I actually own a pair of those - the Sennheiser HD25I-II.

 

Don't worry, they are working on that too because Apple appears to be moving in the direction of killing the headphone connector. Luckily most expensive headphones have the option to switch the cable for anther one as it is interchangeable and not fixed, but the rest is going to be in trouble once they ditch the headphone jack and force you to buy an adapter that's probably more expensive that the headphone themselves. PCs were not like that, you could, and still can to some degree, upgrade your PC all the time to the latest and greatest hardware, you could increase RAM, replace your hard drive, add a GPU, even switch the motherboard eventually. I mean, I own a laptop that's 5 years older than the iPad one and the thing continues to work well simply because I added a little additional RAM to it.

 

Actually, I don't really mind if it stays that way. Headphones and speakers not losing their value for decades. It's good in my opinion. The Sennheiser HD25I-II still sounds great today, despite having decade-old drivers. Even headphone enthusiasts still consider it as one of the best headphones in its category. But going back on topic, yeah, good thing about PC is that you can upgrade their parts, making them useful in the long run. Actually, as long as the user doesn't do heavy tasks like video editing, gaming, etc, desktops and laptops can definitely hold their own for many years.