I actually deleted the health app from my sad-pad thinking maybe the bullshit would stop 😢
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I very much understand why the software hits end of support but goddamn it’s irritating when something this simple is gated.
Going back to Siri on iPhone 4 (only 4S supported it despite no hardware limitation) and perhaps earlier, Apple gates features behind hardware upgrades for no reason beyond selling new hardware (eg Apple AI on iPhone 15 Pro, not plus, but it’s all in the cloud anyways). This makes it difficult to have a reasonable conversation about legitimately EOL devices - an iPad that’s EOL doesn’t get the feature for med notification because it’s packaged with the other OS changes and the amount of work to backport it to an older OS version is significant.
We used to get support for 5-9 years… the company is still unimaginably wealthy, but the fucking accountant-in-chief decided that he needed a few more Ferraris.
Tim Cook can eat a dick… (Or maybe that should’ve been pussy? I don’t want him to enjoy it.) 😅
(eg Apple AI on iPhone 15 Pro, not plus, but it’s all in the cloud anyways)
It isn’t, though. Apple does a significant amount of their AI processing locally. It’s part of why they’re “behind” the competition, but I actually see it as a plus due to the privacy advantages.
(When they do go to the cloud, that is, when the on-board models are insufficient, first it goes to Apple’s servers, where the request is reportedly handled without any tracking or logging. If Apple’s AI isn’t good enough, it will ask if it can send the request to ChatGPT, and then even that connection goes through Apple instead of through your account so tracking is minimized.)
Apple cares about privacy, or at least cares about appearing to care about privacy. They’re obviously not at the level of GrapheneOS or something, but for a mainstream retail phone company, they’re better than most in this regard.
From recollection, the chip in the iPhone 15 had the capacity to do the local model and perhaps they turned it on in an iPad. Or perhaps I’m confused. That happens a lot.
Because it’s about RAM. It requires 8GB of RAM which iPhone 15 doesn’t. (But 15 Pro does.)
Ah, true.
The iPads with AI support are the Pro ones with M processors, same series that the MacBooks use. (Believe it or not, iPad actually got the M4 before the MacBooks did.) Unless they’ve enabled it in the newest iPads running A series processors, which may have the AI cores that the iPhone 15 Pro and later have. I don’t know, I haven’t followed any iPad news in a while. My iPad Pro is mostly an extremely overpowered sheet music device that I occasionally use for productive tasks or Moonlight/Xbox/video streaming. 😅
Is that because it’s too old to be updated? Never had an ipad or iphone, so I genuinely have no clue.
Planned obsolescence
Bingo… it’s like 3.9* iOSes out of date and my broke ass can’t afford an upgrade after paying 1.8K for a fucking phone 2 years ago.
*8 if we’re counting the bullshit version bump iOS 26 😝
There are unfortunately no decent Android tablets though. iPads are much nicer overall as far as I can tell.
Because android lacks cohesion there.
Apple tried to make a platform that functions as a hybrid phone/laptop.
Android tried to make a big phone and Google saved the laptop-experience for ChromeOS.
Add to this…I don’t think there’s a single good keyboard case for android tablets. Maybe a semi-decent one for some flagship models…but nothing that compares to the official apple keyboard.
But now ChromeOS is dying so…what do?
Samsung’s tablets aren’t bad. After you do a healthy round of debloating. Buy a top of the line Galaxy Tab from 2 years ago on clearance to avoid high prices, too.
LOL 😂
I mean, buying a two year-old one is probably the only way to guarantee that you don’t have to fucking root it with a bunch of ADB commands… at least one of which will be left out of the tutorial, which you will have to watch five times, on reduced speed, because it’s a video tutorial made by a 13 year old or developer with a thick accent*.
- I’m going to get called out for racism here… it’s not. I love anyone who takes the time and effort to put together a tutorial that I need to watch to get stuff done… but I do miss written instructions 😢
Strongly agree… although this BS has given me pause for thought several times.
