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I held off on the ios 8, but have now done the 8.1 update and I'm pretty pleased with it so far. Not as bad as what I have been reading from other posts. The iPad is still very useable. I have read that people have a delay of 1-1.5 seconds after pressing the home button, mine doesn't, it reacts pretty much instantly.
One thing that has really improved is the battery life. It is now brilliant. Maybe something was wrong in ios7, but my battery life was awful compared to my old iPad 2. The iPad 3 always seemed to be on charge because of the length of time it took to charge. This morning I have read my morning paper and checked the websites I normally look at which would have taken around 20% of the battery, but it has used just 7% using ios8!!
I have pre ordered the iPad air 2 and was going to sell the iPad 3, but it will now be given to the other half. (Saves me buying 2 iPad air 2's)