Paperweight*

“[app] is not compatible with this iPad” for every app I try.

I gave Clare a new tablet last year and I tried to resurrect this 8-year old device (Model A1432) to be at least a news-reading or email device. Nothing works.

So I emailed my iGuyIKnow. He replied, “First question is, what iOS version is currently installed. … If there is a newer version of the iOS, it will indicate the [n]ew version and allow you to download and install it. If it indicate[s] that the software is up to date, you are out of luck. The iPad is so old and so many versions behind in operating system that current apps/webpages will not work.”

Alas: “iOS 9.3.5. Your software is up to date.”

My friend replied to this information: “Yes, we will probably be getting iOS 15 in the next few days, [so] running iOS 9 explains all of your problems.”

It’s good to “know a guy” and it didn’t take long to determine that the device is kaput and we have a pretty, flat paperweight.* :)

» 120 days behind in posting

Looking back
  1 year ago: “Pandemic Puzzle #17”
 2 years ago: “Veins”
 3 years ago: “Black Swan Brewpub, Indianapolis”
 4 years ago: “One last look before checking out”
 5 years ago: “Seeking shelter from the storm…”
 6 years ago: “Danaus plexippus (Monarch)”
 7 years ago: “Done outside!” (garage addition)
 8 years ago: “Fun with Geometry”
 9 years ago: “Do not adjust your television”
10 years ago: “Shadows of time”

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* footnote For larger, heavier objects that reach the end of their useful life, the classification is “boat anchor.” (From my graduate school buddy, R.A. Damon.)

[Mags]

I get it! My iMac will soon be obsolete.

[Kathy]

Planned obsolescence. Goes against most of what I value.

[Thom Mitchell]

@randystreat I hear what you're saying, but I also know that the Excel and Photoshop apps I use every day couldn't run on my first computer, which was a 286 in 1991. At some point, higher-functioning apps will simply require a higher-functioning operating system and I'd rather have my Excel 2016 than the first version I had back in the day! I can do so much more with Excel now!

P.S. I still remember installing MS Word, version 1! It came on 25 3½" diskettes. It was quite the lengthy process one morning — and a few cups of coffee — to feed 25 installation disks into the 3½" drive!

[GaryW]

I have the same problem. So what do you do with it now?

[Danette Thompson]

I find it unfortunate. I guess I should update my iOS!

[Thom Mitchell]

@thewatersphotos Use as a paperweight or recycle, I guess. I am never sure whether it's okay to just toss electronics in the trash — I think it's *not OK*.