I'm kinda surprised that Apple is breaking the 3 years software support pattern with iPad 1 (Jan 2010) and iOS 6 (Sep 2012); even when they dropped PPC, they still support PPC until Snow Leopard released in 2009, 3 years after the final PPC Mac in 2006, or the original iPhone (June 2007) and iOS 4 (June 2010).
As an iPad 1 owner, I do feel a little disappointed, although I don't really feel I miss anything. Most apps is still working like before, it's not that the device is suddenly turned into paperweight overnight. 2 years 8 months is already a long time in technology field.
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I'm kinda surprised that Apple is breaking the 3 years software support pattern with iPad 1 (Jan 2010) and iOS 6 (Sep 2012); even when they dropped PPC, they still support PPC until Snow Leopard released in 2009, 3 years after the final PPC Mac in 2006, or the original iPhone (June 2007) and iOS 4 (June 2010).
As an iPad 1 owner, I do feel a little disappointed, although I don't really feel I miss anything. Most apps is still working like before, it's not that the device is suddenly turned into paperweight overnight. 2 years 8 months is already a long time in technology field.
They made a pretty bad mistake with the 256 ram only. It just can't handle it. (Iphone4 has 512)