“[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 … If there is a newer version of the iOS, it will indicate the [n]ew version and allow you to download and install it.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.* :)
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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.)
Retired economics professor (“dismal scientist”). Married 40+ years to the love of my life; we have two grown daughters, both married, two granddaughters and a...
@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!
@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*.
January 13th, 2022
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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!