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Yeah, that's a great feature.

One open issue is that from time to time a breaking change to our API is needed and a force-upgrade is forced on the app users. We try to avoid it, but it happens.

The next time this happens, it's really goodbye iOS 6 users.

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This year, Apple's "12 Days of Gifts" app only runs on iOS7. I don't know if that was intentional, but it seems likely.

Slightly off topic here. I'm a bit baffled by that app. It's a fugly - it seems like a pre ios 7 app that was resurrected in a few days and isn't very Appley at all. I wouldn't call is skeuomorphic, but it isn't the new(ish) flat look. The main screen's background just looks like someone forgot to include the artwork. Its a flat grey though, so must have been chosen. The clunky FAQ page isn't nice either, and a straight link to a web page would have been nicer IMHO.

Yeah, that was the ultimate kick in the teeth from Apple for all us pre-iOS7-ers - 'sorry, you don't even get our free stuff anymore, luddites'

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