[afavour]

An aside but I’ve long thought that if Apple was truly committed to the environment and equipment reuse they’d let us use old iPads for stuff like this. I’d love to make a digital photo frame/day planner from an old iPad mini I have kicking around. They could even integrate Siri etc.

(I know you can get some way toward this with various apps but it’s definitely not the same as something OS-level)

[alexb_]

Why would Apple ever be "truly committed" to something which gives them less money? They have no reason to encourage people to use old technology.

[donor20]

They have by far the longest support historically compared to the rest of the ecosystem. It’s not even close. A while ago my parents bought an android device that SHIPPED one version behind and was never updated. Totally pathetic. I’ve seen fixes for surprisingly old iOS devices and even new features often go back some generations.

[afavour]

> Why would Apple ever be "truly committed" to something which gives them less money?

Because they claim to be!

[ClassyJacket]

My work does something like this with Surfaces and unfortunately if you leave devices like that plugged in all the time the batteries swell and bend the screen and frame.

Maybe they could soft lock them to 50% or something but under normal circumstances it's too dangerous.

[ignorantguy]

I have an old ipad Mini running ios9. there is an app called liveframe and it has integrations with google photos. i have been running it as a picture frame for a couple of years now