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I have my iPad 2. It will complete 8 years of daily use next month (I was slow to place the order, and the line got BIG!). It still gives me a solid 8 hours on use. My main complain is that it is slow to open iBooks (iOS 9 name of Books), which is my main activity with it.

I expect its battery to simply fail any day now. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if it took some years still. I thought about getting a new one many times, but I simply can’t justify the expense. My iPad 2 is still very much usable to me (and my kids, whom are younger than it).

That all being said, I’d never have so old a product being repaired, in any level. I doubt it would be cost effective, particularly with the current line up of new offerings.

Still waiting for an option to consolidate and unify a family shared iCloud Photo Library.

Disclaimer: Avid AppleInsider reader, for more than a decade and counting.

Steve Jobs would not (one can reasonably assumes) be proud to have his name and legacy be used as clickbait for a piece that could, with no loss to its core message, just mention his name because of the venue's name from last week event!

For all the finger-pointing we routinely find on AI, about the rest of the tech media always spiting out some iteration of: "Apple is doomed because ..., that would never have happened under Steve.", it's baffling to see that, although AI does not share the same "doom & gloom" prognosis, it does uses the same overall strategy to garner more clicks on a slow news Sunday morning.

Hopefully, this situation will start to improve with the push to news subscription (although I'll have to wait for a global rollout). I would vey much happily pay for access to real newsworthy articles, editorials, and op-eds, if that means I don't have to navigate around clickbait trying to find anything worth reading.

It is a shame to see AI editorial staff in this predicament, and I hope things do get better.

I have the definitive solution, that worked for me years ago, and remains fail proof to this day: stop using G services altogether!

Well, the argument cuts both ways... I had a (paid) Dropbox account, years ago, when the only alternatives were GoogleDrive, which I distrust, and OneDrive. But as an Apple customer, as soon as iCloud Drive was in good enough shape, I've changed suppliers. Trouble is, it is a lot easier to keep within Apple services, particularly if you have Macs and iDevices. But that is neither Apple's fault, nor ill intent. That's consumer trust and convenience.