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obsolescence of iPods/ipads/iPhones and any ideas for solutions?

Now then fellow fixers. After a long break, and a huuuuuge clear out via eBay, I have started again in the fixing department. What really got up my left nostril ( a quaint but useful saying here) is that I had working iPhones and iPods that are no longer supported by iTunes so although you could put music or photo's on, you could no longer download apps or apps you did have were no longer supported and therefore redundant. They have become virtually worthless even though they work. It was a problem too for my iBook G3. I never felt too upset by it until recently, and I don't think it's just Apple that are the one's to blame here-for example all those android phones that aren't eligible for the newest OS. Is there no way of getting apps that were for the earlier OS to be available? Or are we all doomed to be on the "upgrade" treadmill?

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Apple releases cool new things in newer versions of the developer SDK, but newer versions drop support for older OSs. And the OSs progressively drop support for older hardware. :/

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Wish I was a tech-magic person filled with that kind of special knowledge about breakdowns etc, that you know!

I'm over 65, ApplePOOR and am sitting with 4 laptops, a 'vintage' ipod, a minolta camera...none of which will work with the newer operating systems!

I have up-graded RAM, and switched out HDrives! But no luck. The best advice from the Genius Bar cost me for 4 Ram chips and 2 Hard Drives and within a month or so both laptops died anyway.

SO, for $220 I bought a google chrome.

I'm beginning to understand that this is some kind of ghoul machine...I now need a 'real' computer so this acer 7 google chrome thing can (somehow) work, that is, print...etc

I haven't figured out yet how to really use this machine. I was told by chrome ninjas that I should buy a Cloud ready printer? (I have a printer but it's not cloud ready)

I'm flummoxed. Any suggestions?

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it gets on my nerves that perfectly good, working machines are no longer supported by software..and this is across the electronic world. I don't think it says much for us as a species that we constantly dismiss the old..bit like euthanasia for the healthy.

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polytintop, how do we fight greed? That is what it comes down to, and it does not matter who it is. Nokia, Samsung, Apple or Microsoft, it is all the same. I guess the only way would be to learn how to develop, write and compile our one apps. I am in total agreement with you and hate the way we are being exploited. I am one of those people that does not need the latest, greatest, newest and shiniest piece of technology. I do love owning and using legacy devices. Luckily for some of those I can use OS's like Linux etc. As for using some of your old apps, give this a try:

1. locate an app in your filesystem, usually an itunes folder with all your apps.

2. rename the IPA to ZIP

3. open the zip folder, locate info.plist

4. open info.plist using a text editor, and in the description where it says minimum IOS change to the IOS of your old device.

for example if its MinimumIOS6.0 change it to MinimumIOS3.0

Hope this will help to ease the burden a bit. Lets continue to modify and fix things so we can make a bit of difference.

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unfortunately the ipod and the iPhone 3g were stolen with my mac :-( but thanks for the info. It was driving me nuts that I couldn't download any new apps on a perfectly good device and that things like instagram worked one day and then refused to let me use it the next because it had been upgraded and my version was no longer supported! boo hiss. I wish itunes etc kept the old versions to download or gave you the option to search for older iOS apps that are in their library.

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pollytintop will be eternally grateful.