{"id":222,"date":"2012-10-21T20:38:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T20:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/?p=222"},"modified":"2012-10-21T20:38:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T20:38:18","slug":"will-ios-apps-for-children-need-to-support-ipad-1st-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/apps\/will-ios-apps-for-children-need-to-support-ipad-1st-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Will iOS apps for children need to support iPad 1st generation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first generation iPad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.padgadget.com\/2012\/06\/13\/time-to-upgrade-that-first-generation-ipad-no-ios-6-support\/\">does not support iOS 6<\/a>. As operating systems evolve it&#8217;s not surprising that older hardware is obsoleted. AppAdvice on the matter: <a href=\"http:\/\/appadvice.com\/appnn\/2012\/06\/mad-at-apple-for-locking-original-ipad-out-of-ios-6-get-over-it-already\">Get over it<\/a>. But is that so easy for a publisher of apps made for children? Developers would prefer to deal only with the latest version of an iOS release. However, if you publish apps for children there&#8217;s <strong>probably a very high percentage of children who have the first generation iPad<\/strong>. As mom and dad upgrade to a newer iPad then that older model gets handed down.<\/p>\n<p>My 1st generation iPad runs 5.1.1. It&#8217;s pretty slow at times, especially when there&#8217;s a lot of books in iBooks. Movies run great. No problem there. Some apps are slow to start and some are sluggish. But, still, overall it&#8217;s a decent device. And <strong>for a young kid it&#8217;s a great device<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If children are a significant customer segment for your apps, then you&#8217;re likely to be supporting iOS 5.x for a long time<\/strong>. With the hardware limitations of the 1st generation iPad Apple probably didn&#8217;t have a choice in leaving it out with iOS 6. But for those selling apps in the children&#8217;s market it&#8217;s not such an easy decision to abandon that model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first generation iPad does not support iOS 6. As operating systems evolve it&#8217;s not surprising that older hardware is obsoleted. AppAdvice on the matter: Get over it. But is that so easy for a publisher of apps made for children? Developers would prefer to deal only with the latest version of an iOS release. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7,11,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}