If longevity is what they want, they should release private keys and hardware specs for hardware that they drop from their own OS updates.
That way, we could continue using old iPads and iPhones, albeit with custom Android builds.
That way, we could continue using old iPads and iPhones, albeit with custom Android builds.
Many older apps have now also been pulled from the store. My iPhone 1 can only reinstall Skype from an old iTunes backup, but not from the store.
I have a first gen iPod Touch running iOS 3.x and a first gen iPad running iOS 5. Of course I have newer devices too.