NYT reporter uses megaphone to decry ‘slow death’ of 5-year-old iPad mini running iOS 9, admits hardware still works fine

For those not intimately familiar with the iPad mini in question, it debuted on Oct. 23, 2012. In an age of Retina displays, it was Apple’s last iPad to not feature the display, paired with an A5 processor. There are two ways to look at the A5 chip in the …
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