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Wish it didn't require iOS 6. I don't upgrade my iPad after previous updates made it slow.

I'm in the same boat as you. I have an iPad 2 and since there is no easy downgrade I'm not prepared to move to iOS6 either.

I had a bad experience with my iPhone 3G. I had to jailbreak it just to downgrade back to a usable phone. That whole process took several hours of time, which I really don't have these days.

Usually, apple tries to improve firmware speed after they add features. I found that staying updated is the best policy.

I upgraded from iOS 5 to 6 on my iPhone 4 and immediately regretted it. There are multi second delays with no visible feedback. Text boxes (such as the one I'm typing into) is almost completely broken in Chrome (by the update). iOS 5 was far superior to 6 and I wish I could downgrade easily.

Unless you're trying to run iOS 7 on the iPhone 4 or iOS 6 (or was it 5?) on the 3G.

There are definitely times where it DOES NOT END WELL even though the device technically supports the upgrade.

A better policy is to wait for reports and then upgrade after a few weeks if they're positive.

It was the iOS 4 update that practically killed my 3G. Everything became too slow to bear. If it wasn't for the great work of the jailbreakers, i wouldn't have been able to get back to iOS 3.

If you're expecting performance from BETA operating systems I may have bad news for you.

A better policy is to wait for the official releases rather than buying a UDID slot from a dodgy website.

I couldn't upgrade my iPad because it's the first generation one...Again, would love a non-iOS 6 version; what features of this app depend on iOS 6?

It's a $0-$2 app. It's not worth the effort to support an older generation of iOS. 93% of people have upgraded to iOS6.

The one thing Apple really got right was getting a large percentage of their users upgraded to their latest OS. Hope it goes as well for iOS7.

An entirely fair point, although if the dependencies are relatively limited it's less painful/more feasible to support iOS 5.

My iPad is reaching its retirement age anyway.

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