Every line in the boot path is code we wrote. There is zero Apple code between power-on and Linux. The bootloader is ours, top to bottom. To our knowledge, no one has done this on an A13 device before.
Every line in the boot path is code we wrote. There is zero Apple code between power-on and Linux. The bootloader is ours, top to bottom. To our knowledge, no one has done this on an A13 device before.
Until they stop supporting the device for OS updates and apps stop functioning. I have a couple older iOS devices that we still use but they cannot update past iOS 9 and 12, and some apps have ceased functioning in one way or another. So they’re fine for a little web browsing and the like, but that’s about it.
The big issue is when older communication standards stop being supported and you lose access to 3G, 802.11n, TLS1.2, etc. at that point, the device becomes an offline-only device.
That said, I have an iPad 2 I picked up in 2011 that still functions perfectly except for web browsing. Works great as a jailbroken emulator, an eBook reader, running all the same offline apps I used in 2011, and the original battery still lasts for 8 hours on a charge.