Comment by paranoidrobot

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.