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Since you're asking... Had I updated to iOS 7, every single animation on my phone would have become jaggy, and the camera would just take forever (instead of current 15 seconds) to load.

Oh wait, my iPhone 35s doesn't support iOS 7 at all (for these reasons). But I know people with iPhone 4 who don't upgrade because iOS 7 lags too much even on iPhone 4.

Of course we gotta update our devices once in a while, but for those of us who don't live in the US and buy them unsubsidized, it costs some money. All I'm saying is, there are some reasons people won't upgrade right away even if they'd hell like to. Whether to support them for a while is up to you of course.

edit: and there's this iPod Touch thing of course.

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I noticed this with Evernote.

I am still on my iPhone4 with iOS6 and now, everytime I try and sync my phone with iTunes I get the pop up notice that Evernote will not be synced as it requires a new OS version.

I have 100 apps on my phone and that one is the only one that does this. Why on earth did the developers require iOS7 as minimum? What is wrong with supporting iOS6 seeing as iOS7 is still in its "1.0" and not even 4 weeks old?

I get that they wanted to include iOS7 as early as possible. Hell, every app basically did. But Evernote is the only one of my apps that now apparently refuses to work with anything <iOS7.

I guess I was lucky that I still had it on my phone cause otherwise, I would be left without the ability to install it now.

Good points about Evernote - I'm not sure what went into their decision to support iOS 7 only, but I'm sure they considered it.

"I guess I was lucky that I still had it on my phone cause otherwise, I would be left without the ability to install it now."

That's not entirely true any more - Apple is now allowing users to install the "last compatible version" of apps. More on that from Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/17/apple-ios-last-compatible...