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Also, every app developer on IOS is a jerk that deliberately add some fake requirement (such as front facing camera) so appstore will refuse to install the app on 3gs or older models. just because they fear they might get one bad review for the app being slow there... well, not that there are a single app that isn't just a useless native version of some site anyway.

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actually is a shame that apple don't let you restrict which devices you can run on.

also apple should (but don't) reject apps that ask for a front facing camera and yet don't use it. its in the app store submission requirements...

I'm an App Developer who has never done this. Every app developer I know has never done this. I really don't understand why you are so bitter for absolutely no reason, except maybe you have a 3GS and won't upgrade.

I've been forced to do this by a publisher and did not feel good about it at all. To be fair, though, it was a quick port of a flash game that was completely unplayable on the 3gs and not fun on the 4.

A quick search will bring up tables of which device requirements will disallow which devices, so it's not an unheard of practice. But nobody is excluding potential customers out of spite, it's because the older harware genuinely can't handle the apps.

you are the minority. congratulations.

I have a 3Gs so i can also be exception, like you, and keep upgrading my apps/sites and not having to add "front facing camera" just so i can be a slob and not test for the phone poor people uses.

screw upgrading phone every year. my gaming desktop is not upgraded that often.

3GS is now not allowed because the modern version of Xcode can't compile for it

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