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D13H4RD2L1V3 I came from the 2012 iPad "New" ("The new iPad"), otherwise known as the iPad 3 or Retina iPad with the 30-pin connector.
It had 1GB of RAM and it struggled to keep more than 3-4 apps in memory. I tried a few other iPads and while they were quicker, they still struggled to keep more apps in memory. The iPad Air 2 fared better thanks to 2GB of LPDDR3 instead of 1GB.
Then, we have the iPad Pro, with 4GB of LPDDR4. I actually use one now as my main tablet and there is a serious improvement. I can keep as many as 8 apps in memory, some of which being heavy 3D games with intense graphics. No apps have reloaded yet and games always stay where I left them. Add the fact that it's LPDDR4 along with fast NVMe storage AND the A9X processor and this thing is a speed machine.
This really annoys me, when iPad 3 came out the iOS did not allow for multitasking. Now they are forcing users to update - the ios9 nag screen was unbelievably obtrusive. You had to just give in and update otherwise it will keep nagging you. Since the update iPad 3 is useless, iPad 4 is noticably slow.
They also added siri to iPad 4 when in the past they kept it exclusive to iPad air.
At least with Android you can opt out of updates. In fact my galaxy s3 has been stuck in android version 4 for 2 years. The good thing with android is that I can use it for very long because there is not force update which causes the devices to become obselete.
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