Comment by qiqitori
3 years ago
> When her ancient iPad finally died, she tried to add the gmail account to her new replacement iPad. However, she couldn’t remember the password in order to login.
There are of course no details on how exactly the iPad died, and it's possible it's been thrown away already, or that it has been remotely disabled, etc.. But I'm very sure that the iPad can be repaired, or at least that the data on the iPad can be recovered. If the problem is that it doesn't "turn on", maybe spend a couple hundred dollars and send it to e.g. Northridge Fix.
If you get an old iPad, you can't (re)install modern apps.
Apple has forced app developers to upgrade their apps, which has revoked support for older iOS versions.
I ran into this over Christmas when trying to help someone who had been using an old "The New iPad" (I think the iPad 2) but had lost the charger cable.
We charged it up, it powered on and reconnected back to their wifi. They had to re-sign in to Apple, but was unable to install any of the Google apps.