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As a user of a 2012 Nexus tablet, I'd say it's more than that - as the OS and apps auto-update, the device feels slower and slower, with inexplicable freezes. The system alone takes half the total RAM, leading to constant swapping out of apps. I refuse to give in to the upgrade treadmill, but there's a clear pressure.

(There's also the fact that for many, the upgrade is effectively "free" with their contract.)

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I only upgraded my original iPad a month and a half ago because the screen failed - it ran all of the apps that I used flawlessly.

My use case is perhaps in the minority (I used my iPad primarily to read, watch movies via Air Video, browse the web, keep up to date with friends via social media, bedtime email etc), but still did it 5.5 years strong.

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