You’ve done well. I’m surprised that the battery is still viable.

I was running an older iPad Air2 with an earlier OS for 5 years, because I had some data in an app that would be lost if the OS was updated (rendering the app useless) to the newer 64bit version.

The computing hardware is just one limitation.
The latest version of IOS for your iPad is only what it can support, technically. It’s not even in double digits.
Then, the app software and developers only support these older versions of their own app for so long.

Progress.
Eventually, horses become a thing for hobby riding. Cars run on liquid fuel, not coal. Cars without catalytic converters are the nightmare of environmentalists, and you’re expected to believe that EV cars are zero emissions.

Be proud that you’ve done your thing for the environment by running this iPad for so long.

Doc67 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 12:38 pm
A few questions:
1) is this iPad no longer supported by Apple and it is effectively useless?
2) Should I just use the hotel's Netflix app and sign into my account that way? (That's assuming they have smart TV's)
3) Should I invest in a new 'tablet', and if so, which one?

(3)
If you were still in the UK, and if you are not perversely averse to using Apple (some folks go full Greta Thunberg at the mention of Apple, for some inexplicable reason), I’d have suggested getting a 12.9” iPad, and not bother with the computer. The majority of the stuff that I used to do with a laptop is comfortably done with my iPad, now. Although there are times that the laptop is better.
I generally buy a recent model, but from the certified refurbished stuff.

However! I did buy an iPad in Cambodia 2 years ago. It cost the same as the uk model, but came with Apple care. So, in iPad terms, reasonable value.

Generally, I don’t travel with the computer anymore.

(2)
Why not? Except the tedium of entering passcodes and ensuring no one else benefits. I rarely do this.

(1)
If the iPad is still working, it will have limited use. The OS will no longer be supported. Most apps will have become obsolete on that OS, too. But it may be recyclable, and useable for credit (in countries where that’s the case). You are quite probably going to be limited to browsing. And even then, the age of the browser app may be limiting.

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 5:17 pm

Freightdog wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 5:02 pm


If you were still in the UK, and if you are not perversely averse to using Apple (some folks go full Greta Thunberg at the mention of Apple, for some inexplicable reason),

Well they are a shitty company with shitty products and shitty business practices

They have a dishonest corporate policy, don't pay tax, use child labour, flat out lie abou warranty cover for their products as policy, lax personal data security, coolaboratin with US govt spy programme (P.R.I.S.M), anticompetititive business practices, planned obsolescence, closed product ecosystems (itunes). . .


Apple have been on the slide since before Steve Jobs tried to cure fucking stage 3 pancreatic cancer by visiting spiritualists and drinking green tea

That said, I liked my work issue Ipad, but I'd never pay for an Apple product

Inferior products, premium pricing

Yes, all good technical reasons to avoid Apple/iPads, and choose another brand/model, granted.