I got a text from one of my friends earlier this week, Angela, and she just texted and she said, why doesn't the iPad have a calculator app? And I'm like, okay, huh, it does. And I said, okay, I said, have you updated your iPad recently? It's a new software? And she said, no, I heard that you should never update your software unless you get a new device. And I was like, that is horrible

advice. Whoever told you that is very, very wrong. Wherever you learned that is very wrong.

I thought you were going to say she has an iPad that's too old to get the iOS 18 that you need

for the cat car car app. It is an iPad Air, I believe, capable of running not only an iPad OS 18,

but iPad OS 26. And that is the type of comment that

gets under my skin so much. It like makes me want to bang my head into the wall because presumably

she's running iPadOS 17, I guess, refusing to update, denying all of the update prompts

because of whatever myth that she's heard that you're not supposed to install an update unless you get a new device that comes with that version of the software.

And it's like, no, no, no, no, no, that's not what you should do.

I told her it's like, you're missing out on the calculator app, which you apparently want, and you're missing out on all of the various security fixes and improvements that have

come with two years of iPadOS updates compared to what you are running. It's like Apple is never

going to escape that thinking that each iPadOS or iOS updates slows down your device. Like,

they're just not going to be able to move past that. Yeah, it doesn't matter how much they say otherwise. No one, that conspiracy theory will never disappear from

conspiracy theory. That's the word I was looking for. Yeah, like, the idea that Apple

intentionally slows down other devices and the idea that like they on purpose make your battery

bad. Like those two things are like, they're just tied together, partly because of the, you know, the battery gate scandal back in the day, but also just in general, it's such an easy thing for people to update. And then, you know, not every single time, but sometimes your device does get slower after you update because naturally or inevitably, the point zero update is less performant or less optimized than what

they run before and then they hit some bugs and they're like well look here's planned obsolescence

in action it's like so that kind of and it's such an easy thing for people to throw around because

you just say it and like you can't really prove or disprove it one way or the other so you just

you know people put it out into the ether they like ingest it and then it just becomes the fact, right? It's like, oh, you know, Apple slows down your devices. It's just a thing that will never, can never be dispelled, right? It's just a permanent thing. Even though Apple has done so much to support older devices as much as they possibly can in many, many regards. Not every regard. And sometimes there's features that I think we criticize them for where it's like, oh, why was this limited to that? Like, you remember when they did the stage manager stuff, right? And it was like limited to just like the it. It was like M1 only or something, right? And then they, you know, they got a big blowback about that the summer. And then they ended up rolling it out to like the A12Z or whatever the previous chip was for the earlier iPad. And then when they did the multitasking revamp with iPad S-26, they then put it on all sorts of platforms and hardware, including all the A's, you know, the iPad Mini and then the base iPads too. So, you know, there's some, there are some situations where they're a bit stingy in terms of feature support, but I've never seen anything concrete where it's like Apple intentionally pushed an update out that made your device slower. Nope. Your device might have got slower because the battery degraded naturally or like the operating system update wasn't super optimized and super performant and maybe

there's some glitches and bugs in it but it's never i've never seen any evidence that apple's

like sitting there inside cuba team like right here we go iped o s 27 let's make sure that device is

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