<i>Was anybody really complaining that their iPad wasn&#x27;t fast enough? Was that holding back developers?</i><p>When combined with Apple&#x27;s effectively forced upgrade policy with iOS, yes, many people have complained that their iPad is no longer fast enough, even if it was just fine before the OS update.<p>App developers are forced to collaborate in that exercise by Apple deciding which versions of iOS (and visual styles etc.) apps must support to go into the App Store.<p>Probably the most serious example so far was people with 2nd or 3rd generation iPads, who were effectively forced to update to at least iOS 7 because of app compatibility issues. Significant numbers of users appear to have experienced serious performance problems afterwards (just google any plausible complaint wording) and to have reported varying degrees of success in ever resolving them.