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FlyingSnake ◴[] No.44312746[source]
Wonderful story!

We don’t give enough credit to Apple for keeping these old devices alive and kicking.

I have a similar story wherein I repurposed my ancient OG iPhone SE and gave it a new life.

https://samkhawase.com/blog/dumb-smartphone/

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tclancy ◴[] No.44312995[source]
>We don’t give enough credit to Apple for keeping these old devices alive and kicking.

I'm not sure I follow. It feels exceedingly hard to find new uses for old iPads without doing a lot of heavy lifting. Has that changed?

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brailsafe ◴[] No.44313101[source]
My iPad 3 is only unusable because anything beyond iOS 9 isn't installable, most of the like 5 Apps I did have installed on it didn't survive a "backup", and obvs nobody's going out of their way to support ancient platforms.

Otherwise, it still functions as an epub reader as long as iBooks continues functioning, but it's lame that I can't really use it for much else unless I made it a hobby.

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1. leakycap ◴[] No.44321897[source]
To be fair, your iPad 3 is an iPad 2 with a retina screen; I remember buying an iPad 3 and it was glacially slow even at launch on the original iOS.

I would imagine the best use of this device post eReader is a photo stand given the gorgeous screen... or something else that wouldn't need any interaction (it will be too slow to want to have touch interactions with).

I use an iPad 2 as a IPcam monitor. The battery doesn't last long, but I'm able to grab it off the charger and take it around the house if I'm watching something going on. It doesn't support my new AI smart cams, but it still functions.

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2. brailsafe ◴[] No.44400403[source]
Only in a few circumstances is it so slow that it's not interactive, otherwise it's actually perfectly fine. I could never really find a compelling use for the thing beyond media ingestion and browsing anyway, which is exactly what I'd do with a new one, and why I couldn't picture myself buying a new one.