Thread: Which iPad?
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Old 11-09-2017, 18:25   #17
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Re: Which iPad?

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy View Post
It's to force you to buy the next model. They deliberately bloat the applications over time to use up the memory. That's the penalty of buying an Apple product.
They don't actually do this. A number of developer releases over the last few years have been designed to reduce the app sizes and iOS releases have generally stayed within the same gb size for a while now too. iOS 9 and iOS 10 both reduced their sizes: http://bgr.com/2016/06/17/16gb-iphone-6s-ios-10/

They also give longer upgrade periods than most, if not all, Android phones. iOS 10 support goes as far back as the iPhone 5 (released 2012).

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Originally Posted by Osem View Post
One other thing, will he need to use something like itunes if he's not bothered with music etc. and presumably any apps we purchase will be backed up via the app store as it is on Android's Google play store? I still don't know whether we'd need to oeprate the ipad via an email account of some sort so could someone clarify please? :
No need for iTunes. The iPad will back up everything if you want it to via the internet.

As people have pointed out the 'normal' 9.7inch iPad at 128gb is a good bet: https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/buy-ipad/ipad-9-7

What's it being used for? Just to make sure we can rule out the Pro range.

Also your Son would qualify for the educational discount: https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/browse...itution/access

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