My mother-in-law is in the same boat. She is not a demanding user. She basically uses her iPad for 3 things: buying things on Amazon, looking at pictures of her grandson on Facebook, and checking her stocks with the Fidelity app. Well, the Fidelity app recently informed her that she could no longer login unless she installed a required upgrade. It turns out the upgrade is not compatible with the version of iOS that runs on her hardware. So just like that her iPad became obsolete.