Random advice about old, locked "general purpose" computing devices, like an iPad. Long before it's obsolete, decide what kind of appliance you would like it to be when it finally becomes unsupported.
Install the applications you need, test them out offline, make sure they work as you intend. Disable automatic updates for these and leave them be. Install a vnc viewer if available.
When the time comes, delete everything else and you have your appliance.
Brought to you by the frustration of finding a working cbz reader on an old, unsupported ipad, to use it as an offline reader.
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Planned obsolescence was always a thing, but also was moore's law, so it wasn't so infuriating.
Now you have a perfectly modern machine that is remotely disabled because, fuck you consumer.
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Also, it used to be that you could do the things you could do on a computer when it was new, for as long as it was not broken. You maybe couldn't run new things on it but at least I can still play my C64 games on the C64, and I can probably find lots more on the web.
On a 10yo iPad I can't do shit. Even the app store interface is deliberately hostile. You have to pay for the app before it tells you it's incompatible with your device. For free ones you have to try, there's no prior indication of compatibility.
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When I was developing applications for iOS and iOS 7 came out, if you targeted iOS7 you had to lose iOS 4 compatibility (IIRC). So I uploaded a copy of the old app as "classic".
It got rejected as duplicate and was never published. So even if the developer wants to support old devices, they can't.
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