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Why can't they leave in the old versions? It'd be nice to use the simulator for various versions...

Apple has started to leave the iPad simulator for 3.2 and the iPhone simulators for 4.0 and 4.1 ... but I agree I never understood this either. It's almost impossible to test for devices running 3.1.3 without having an old extra device that has not been upgraded

I know - we made the mistake of the setting the target platform to iOS 3.1 but only ended up testing it under iOs 4.0 devices - simply because no-one seemed to use iOS 3.1.

Wrong !

Although 93.6% of our users use iOs4, the other 6% were pissed off when they found out that the app crashed on iOS 3.1

The icing on the cake ? After the app crashed, the users deleted it - and were prompted to rate it. I'm sure that you can imagine the rest.

Thank god that the 'rate on delete' feature was removed from iOS4 - although that is scant consolation.

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