The technology company Apple has updated its list of obsolete deviceswhich includes those that it stopped distributing seven years ago, and where it has been included the first tablet with lightning connector which he put up for sale.
The American manufacturer has a section on the support page in which it includes those devices considered old or ‘vintage’which are those that stopped distributing more than five years ago and less than seven, and those that are obsolete, reviewed Portaltic.
Among the latter is the fourth generation iPadthat is, the first tablet that Apple released with a Lightning port, launched in 2012, which included an A6X chip as novelties compared to the previous series.
In this way, the company directed by Tim Cook has confirmed the information advanced a few months ago, when MacRumors indicated that it had added the tablet that incorporated this type of connectorfirst seen on the iPhone 5, to its list of obsolete products.
Unlike the previous Apple connector, which had 30 connection pins and was present in all iPhone, iPad and iPod, Lightning features eight pins and a smaller size. In addition, it has the same structure on both sides to connect it to devices without any problem.
That a product becomes part of the section of obsolete devices indicates that the manufacturer has discontinued all ‘hardware’ servicesso service providers can’t order parts for these computers (with the exception of Macs, which are extended for battery only).
Along with updating obsolete products, the manufacturer has also renewed the section on devices considered old or ‘vintage’.
In the latter now appears the iPhone 6Pluswhich was first released in 2014 alongside the iPhone and discontinued by Apple with the release of iPhone 7 y iPhone 7 Plus. However, iPhone 6 remained on the market for a longer time, which is why it does not appear in this list.
Contrary to iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6 was relaunched in 2017 as a mid-range device and was released until September 2018..
The main difference between these iPhones and the previous ones is that they were the first to offer support for Near Field Communications (NFC), which is generally used for the Apple Pay payment application.
With this model the company also tested a new differential aspect between the devices, its sizesince the iPhone 6 Plus was larger than iPhone 6.
However, the iPhone 6 stopped receiving new major updates to the iOS operating system since September 2019, with the arrival of iOS 13, a free software update for iPhone 6s and later.
