First-gen iPad not getting iOS 6 update, Apple confirms

2. jove39 posted on 11 Jun 2012, 14:35 9 3

So Apple is asking first gen iPad owners to buy new iPad to taste iOS6...thought Apple is best when it comes to updates...but not anymore!

3. QinEmpire posted on 11 Jun 2012, 14:36 6 6

At least first gen iPad have gotten an update already unlike many Androids that's still left out in the dusk without even hoping for one.

4. Dejavu_LT posted on 11 Jun 2012, 14:37 6 4

It's really simple answer - first gen ipad is not on stores anymore (stores still selling 3GS as well) :)

5. Iphone4 (unregistered) posted on 11 Jun 2012, 14:40 8 3

no more Ios device for me

6. wassup posted on 11 Jun 2012, 14:55 3 1

so much for apple nnot supporting it's older hardware, even Samsung, which people say is horrible at updates even updated it's galaxy line from 2.1 to 2.2 to 2.3 :D
and we can run 4.0 unofficially, can you?

7. Mxyzptlk posted on 11 Jun 2012, 15:31 4 4

This crap. The iPad 1 is like three years old. It has seen several iOS upgrades. That's many more than any Android device will ever see in its lifetime. The iPad 1 has been discontinued. PA shouldn't post slightly misleading articles to sort of anger people. No one complains when Motorola or Samsung gives the middle finger for updates.

8. theoak posted on 11 Jun 2012, 15:40 2 1

Considering the iPad original has been discontinued, this makes sense.

However, with the table war getting really hot though, breathing life into the original iPad may have meant more loyal iOS users however.

It will be interesting to see the impact here.

13. Whateverman posted on 11 Jun 2012, 17:16 2 2

Yet another "Screw you!" to all those early adopters of the iPad! Oh well, there wasn't much to ios 6 to look forward to except navigation, at least for me, so no biggie.

14. InspectorGadget80 posted on 11 Jun 2012, 19:35 0 2

surprise surprise. to think everyone keep saying they always get iOS update unlike our Android does.

17. KingKurogiii posted on 11 Jun 2012, 23:10 0 2

laugh all you want that this is not getting the update, frankly some of you iOS trolls deserve it after not seeing how obviously bad it is that Apple will push software for devices that can't properly support it. this route will be better for Apple (especially their Technical Support Staff) and their end users.

23. ibap posted on 12 Jun 2012, 06:06 1 1

I'm not a huge Apple fan, but I bought a used iPad I from a friend who just had to have version 2. It does what I bought it to do, and I don't really care if it get the latest update UNLESS newer apps that don't really need the new features are deliberately restricted to the newer OS version. This could happen because the developers don't have an original to test on, or simply don't care. Given how Apple controls things, I can easily see this happening.

It isn't jailbroken (yet), but can anyone else smell a potential hack to put the new OS, or at least some semblance of it, on the original?

25. sameerchadha posted on 12 Jun 2012, 16:26 1 0

Apple just threw first Gen IPAD out of the house and under the bus. Seriously? Since when does a 2 year old product seem too old to support?? These consumer companies, apple included, are going to bury us all in a pile of trash.

27. JDDurrant posted on 06 Aug 2012, 16:27 0 0

If Apple aren't going to give the original iPad iOS 6, they should at least bump it up to 5.2 and add Facebook integration, any changes to Mobile Safari and removal of the classic YouTube app...

28. Littlecrabs posted on 20 Sep 2012, 04:30 0 0

Any manufacturer is one bad decision away from losing those in their ecosystem. Apple have announced at least two:
1) No iOS6 for iPad 1 = loss of trust
2) Change in docking / charger format on iPhone 5 = loss of trust
They've given competitors a window of opportunity to win those customers who now have to pay for the latest firmware.
I have sunk costs in iOS apps, but now might be the time for me to look seriously at Android and make the jump. The devices are effectively as good as Apple and much cheaper.
Nokia screwed up when they stopped making phones compatible with the business standard car kit in the UK. Apple might have just done the same.

29. RobSherratt posted on 21 Sep 2012, 15:04 0 0

Yes owners of iPad1 like me appear to have been discontinued by Apple. Oh what a shame, my $650 investment of 2 years ago is now valued at $50 or less.

This proves the problem with closed-vendor solutions - they lock you into a single source and then screw you. They decide to obsolete your tablet computer even though its hardware is perfectly usable, and they try to make you buy a later model.

I've had enough of being a little grub locked inside a very sour Apple. I'm fed up with all the lock-in factors, iTunes, iCloud whatever. I wish Microsoft every success with Windows 8/RT. Instead of getting indigestion from another Apple, my future Windows 8 tablet will support USB devices, plug-in memory expansion, and whatever apps and data I want to load onto it. I am just fed up with Granny Smith.

30. ramljm posted on 26 Sep 2012, 01:11 0 0

Just @ genius bar and told due to low memory message I would have to repeatedly restart the ipad throughout the day. Also I was told the gyroscope feature not working could be fixed by software. The techs really didn't seem to care that I had 3months left on the apple care warranty. This is the first time after spending about $65000 over 20 years I felt blown off by support @ Apple in store. It is frustrating after spending $599 for the 32 G less than two years ago. No offer to leave it and look it over the tech Justin emailed me an article so I could try a fix myself. I feel like I wasted my time and all this after having my hard drive replaced two times in less than 1 year on a Mac Book Pro 15 2.66 I7. I was considering spending $3000 to get another Pro after only 1 1/2 years of owning the other Pro. It makes me want to spend my money elsewhere after 20 + loyal years to Apple.

31. venturadog posted on 28 Sep 2012, 13:26 0 0

Apple is just wanting to sell NEW iPads. My first gen is perfectly fine and gives me no reason to run out and purchase a newer better model. Frankly, the iPad hasn't changed enough to support people running in to buy an upgrade.iPad's aren't in every purse and pocket all over either. So they do not have as many loyal upgraders as the phones. IOS6 is another reason to "get a new one." Support of a discontinued product is a cop-out. Everyone knows that most the innards are the same as the iPhone 4. Apple engineers could probably click a button (or touch a screen) to generate a build of iOS6 for the first gen iPad. It's really crappy that the iPhone 3gs can get a build and not the iPad. Give some developpers time to hack and I'm sure an unlocked iPad Gen1 with IOS6 will be around soon enough :)

34. rockeddie posted on 26 Nov 2012, 02:56 0 0

I have an iPad 1 and it's frikken terrible. Keeps crashing and now apple poofs tell us there's no update?

So what happens with people that purchase the latest pad 2 and 3?

Are they also going to ditch those users in about 2 years time?

Do apple poofs keep expecting all of us to buy new iPads ! Greeting punch of pricks.

35. luckycanuck posted on 03 Feb 2013, 22:35 0 0

This has most likey been said but, I have a gen 1 and a Gen 2 IPad, I use a Galaxy Tab at work, my tab stays more up todate than the iPad, my tab is on 4.1 and I don't see Samsung stopping updates like iPad. If all I owned was a Gen 1 iPad I too would be angry. Thank goodness I have my Galaxy Tab to fall back on when they dump the Gen 2 owners next.
Too bad as I like some things about the IPad platform

36. Izaan posted on 24 Feb 2013, 15:23 0 0

Apple is so stupid leavingfirst gen ipad behind plus they shouldve gotten it to ios 5.9.9 then ios 6 STUPID I NEED A GOOD IOS FOR GOOD GRAPHICS GAMES!!! f**k THEM