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When they originally brought out the feature, it supported the new phones but the OS update was also made available for older models that were outside of warranty since Apple continue to support their hardware years after release.

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Next time you consider buying closed hardware (not just Apple, and Android tablets are certainly problematic too), think about the iPad 2. Apple should be legally forced to enable third parties to support this hardware. Or bought a new tablet even if they still use their iPad 2 for the uses cases the iPad 2 is not capable of handling anymore. Many people probably replaced their iPad 2 with a new tablet for exactly this reason. Maybe not intentionally to make you buy a new one, but still bad and the consequences are the same. I'd say it is exactly the example of a device that is today unusable for many things its hardware could handle just fine for no good reason, and therefore obsolete for many people. The web is essentially broken on it, and I'm not even talking about the security issues that it probably has as a consequence. However, it is a device that would be perfectly capable of being used to surf the webвЂ¦ but Apple stopped releasing updates for Safari and forbids alternative browser engines for iOS. It is good some people still find use for it. So, yes please, port Linux to the Apple devices! That's so dumb.ДЄnd I'd probably prefer using existing devices than buying new ones if possible. These otherwise perfectly capable devices are worthless now just because of one thing: the old version of Safari combined with the fact that Apple forbids browsers with alternative browser engines on these devices. I hope these projects will help save 2 old iPad 2 sleeping somewhere in my family.

I'd probably look into Pine64's (and other such manufacturers) devices first though. At this point I'd rather avoid both Android and iOS.

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If I ever need a tablet and these projects work out without too many drawbacks, I'd actually probably consider getting a second hand iPad and install Linux on it. it might show Apple that yes, opening their devices a bit may actually increase their sales (but I would not count on it) Yes, they may save some devices from the landfill So Apple is not making new money with this Maybe they'd buy second hand iThings on which Linux is guaranteed to work. I don't expect many people to actually buy a new iThing because of these projects. without these projects, Apple will still continue doing whatever they are doing However, thinking about the consequences completely flips the coin for me: That would almost makes me against this kind of projects. I completely agree with this line of thinking. Sure 99% of people will buy an app that might do a similar thing or just give up BUT people like me just think 'would be cool if this would work and we do it'.ДЄnd don't try to accuse me that it took me 12 hours to make a button to OCR my screen or other bullshit accusations, you can spend 5 minutes googling what package does a screen grab, what package does OCR from image, then you combine the 2 packages and done, 5 minutes and I had hours saved and sometimes made impossible stuff possible. On my Linux desktop I have a one line script that will speak the time to me every 15 minutes (I need it) or I have a script that when I press a button it will OCR the screen and read it to me. That does not generalize, sure you can't imagine what you could use a device like that and the freedom but others can. >IMO an iPhone with linux is going to be less of 'do whatever your mind can imagine' and more of 'spend countless time trying to hack random stuff into this unsupported platform'.

Android devices also suffer from this issue, some where some stuff gets outdated and many webpages or apps will not longer work for you because of security reasons forcing you to get a new device.

So this is not for you or people like you, could be a solution for poor people, all my computing devices were old second hand stuff ntill I had a good job to afford some new average PC.