My comment was limited to iPad 2 owners who upgraded. And Apples own message boards reflect hundreds of iPad 2 owners who had the same issues. One can only assume there were legions more who don't post on message boards. There are dozens of magazine and blog articles which acknowledge the issues and try to offer tips and work arounds to try and lessen these effects. Given that the only solution Apple offers is to buy a new tablet tells me all I need to know.
I’ve seen those comments as well. Apple does not make money off updates, only sales of new devices. Sorry Swordmaker but I will judge on the one device I own, and have no intention of giving them more money.
As was mine, although inclusive of all iOS users. Think about it circlecity, Apple sold MILLIONS of iPad 2s and the adoption of iOS 8 is now approaching 85%, yet you see only "hundreds" of reports on the internet or dozens of articles, which create clicks for ads, for this issue. I have not seen Apple only offering "upgrade to new tablet" as the solution, and instead I see Apple quickly bringing out iOS 8.01, iOS 8.1, iOS 8.1.1 and now iOS 8.1.2, all of which upgrades address the issue and in many cases IMPROVE the performance over what it had been before upgrading to iOS 8 in the first place. That is not ignoring the issue.
circlecity, it is what Apple always does. . . they cannot know how every single model will respond to an update until they put it out into the wild. . . but they will respond once they are out there. Sometimes the response is to replace the unit. If the unit is bad enough, and you find a store manager in a good enough mood, you may walk out with a brand new iPad after a free appointment at a Genius Bar. I've seen it happen with a client of mine on a four year old out of warranty MacBook that had problems they couldn't figure out. . .