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Apple is simply amazing.
This evening my wife brought me her "old" iPad because she wanted to watch an Apple TV+ program -- she subscribes to Apple TV+ -- now renamed as Apple TV. She could get the audio but not the video.
She usually watches Apple TV programs on her laptop, but for some reason she wanted to watch her program in her easy chair with the iPad.
This particular iPad is a very old iPad. It is a "generation 3" iPad which was released in 2012.
As noted, she could get the audio but not the video.
A chatbot search suggested this was a well-known problem -- "audio-but-no-video." The chatbot suggested common problems but the obvious problem was an old operating system.
Her "old" iPad was loaded with iPadOS 5.
Current iPads are loaded with iPadOS 18.
I was absolutely convinced there was no way that a 2012 with an old chip could be upgraded to iPadOS 18.
I was correct.
However, it did upgrade to iPadOs 16.
Interestingly enough:
So, I don't know what to make of that, but bottom line, with the iPadOS update tonight -- took three minutes -- she is now watching her Apple TV show.
I am blown away. I was getting ready to order her a new iPad Air for about $540 (Amazon price slightly lower than Apple's advertised $599 price).
But imagine, an iPad released in 2012 (almost fourteen years ago) is still meeting our needs and was able to be updated to a newer version.
After fourteen years, a much, much better iPad is being sold for almost the same price. Truly amazing.
The third generation iPad optionally had 16-, 32-, or 64GB of internal flash memory. The current iPad has an internal base memory of 128 GB but expandable to 2TB. This simply blows me away.
The introductory price of the 3rd generation iPad was $499.
$499 / 14 years = $35 / year or 70 cents / week.
Don't even get me started.
Well, I guess I did get started. LOL.
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- Reminder: I am inappropriately exuberant about the Bakken, US economy, and the US market.
- I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Apple.
- And now, Nvidia, also. I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Nvidia. Nvidia is a metonym for AI and/or the sixth industrial revolution.
- I've now added Broadcom to the disclaimer. I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Broadcom.
- And Oracle.
- Longer version here.
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On Another Note
In the bat cave, I still have an original 27-inch Intel-based iMac. This was an all-in-one iMac computer and monitor, all self-enclosed. It is / was the biggest desktop iMac ever sold by Apple, as far as I know. It was introduced in 2009 and discontinued in 2022.
Introductory price was $1,799 and was clearly one of the best Apple purchases I ever made.
$1,799 / 17 years = $105 / year = $2.04 / week. Holy mackerel.
By the way, $1,799 might have been one of the most expensive computers I ever bought -- I must have really, really wanted it. LOL. And I still love it.
If I remember, I will post a photograph of the computer on the blog.
My favorite Apple computer of all time was the iMac G3 with an introductory price of $799. The iMac G3 was first introduced in 2000. In 2000, I was seven years from retirement from the USAF; I was the hospital commander at Langley AFB, VA, and I vividly remember buying that computer. "Bondi Blue." Wow, that was a great computer. Link here.
My first computer was an Apple computer IIe, released in 1983. I think that was the first Apple computer I ever bought. I bought it in 1984. We were stationed at Bitburg Air Base, Germany, at the time. I can't even hazard a guess how many Apple computers and iPhones I've owned or bought since then. I assume in excess of twenty.
