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Comment by gyardley | Hacker News Reader

Apparently I'm the only guy still using a first-generation iPad.

Oh well.

There's only 15 million of you, if I recall correctly, and most of them have already coughed up more for the retina one. But there are 70 million iPad 2's and 3's, and I read on MacRumors that Apple expects to sell at least 10 million "mini" iPads in Q4 (not to mention a few more millions of iPad 2's and 3's, and a gazillion more iPad 4's when they introduce them), and almost all of them (except a few who are cranky about the maps, which would soon be forgotten when Google releases its maps app) are on iOS 6.

I too am starting a new iPad app, and it'll be iOS 6 only - because it'll be released early next year, and because it's really, really easier to only target iOS 6 as there have been many improvements in the APIs that literally cuts development time in half.

Most people don't care about maps on iPad nearly as much as on iPhone. I don't think limiting to iOS6 on iPad should be so bad.

I have one too actually, but I don't care because I'm not into paid ipad magazines.

Are you into free ones? shameless plug

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Sweeeeet! I hope you enjoy it. The article on Rwanda in the first issue just won an award, so be sure to check that out.

You're clearly waiting for someone to put this link into the thread: http://www.overnightbuses.com/

Secretly, yes. :)

I have a first generation iPad, too. I had some magazine subscriptions on the iPad that I got for free because I was a subscriber of the physical magazine. With the exception of traveling, I preferred the real magazine. The metaphor of how ads are displayed in physical magazines, paging, etc. didn't carry over well for me in the iPad.

While travelling, I thought it would be cool to have access to a library of magazines to peruse. I ended up mostly just watching videos.

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