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This is likely an attempt to head off the jailbreaking and app copying that many people resort to after discovering their otherwise fully functioning device is basically a paperweight in that it can't install any apps. Unfortunately from real world tests it doesn't appear to be available for many truly older iOS versions.
What truly older iOS versions?
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For that the only solution is what already happens in android. You see lots of apps that have 20 versions for each device/OS version. Just to highlight the problem... i can't download a game on an iphone from [Adult Swim] because it requires a front facing camera! I've been playing the same game on the new ipad with the front facing camera for 2 months. Never found anything that use the camera. go figure.
I don't know if things have changed, but we used to add random "requirements" like that to our app when we needed to remove support for hardware that was too old and slow. Our app ran terribly on the original iPhone (largely due to the nature of the app) so we added some requirement that only the iPhone 3G had.