What’s the oldest functioning piece of Apple tech that you still use? Until very recently, my only iPad was a fourth-generation model that could run nothing beyond iOS 10.3.3. It was knocked off a kitchen unit by a cat several years ago and, as a result, the screen was cracked, severely splintered around the edges and had bits of speaker and indeterminate circuitry exposed around the Home button. Crucially, many of the apps that I enjoyed on the iPad had since been updated well beyond my knackered old tablet’s capabilities, rendering it almost completely redundant. I was also guilty of hanging onto my blue iPhone 5C for too long (eventually ditching it when callers could no longer hear my voice), and relied on my fourth-gen iPod Classic for a good ten years after I really should have.
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