>> Code signing, provisioning profiles, entitlements, AppStore wizardry Maybe it's because I've been doing iOS development since the original SDK, but this stu

>> Code signing, provisioning profiles, entitlements, AppStore wizardry Maybe it's because I've been doing iOS development since the original SDK, but this stuff is now super automated. I can't remember the last time I thought about any of it other than enabling some entitlements (and that's done in Xcode with a checkbox now). >> Apple makes it difficult to maintain support for older devices. I'm not sure I agree with this either. I work with a range of large iOS devs and they're all still supporting iOS 12 and 13 without much difficulty. Sure, you can't use the latest and greatest API's but there's nothing blocking you from using the API's supported by the older OS versions. Regarding the iPhone 7 - it's very old. Nearly a decade old. And even at that it still supports iOS 15 which is only a couple of years old. Generally I find indie shops will force you to use the most recent couple of OS versions because they want to use the new API's and don't want the overhead of maintaining support for older ones. Any app that's relying on having lots of users is supporting as far back as possible (particularly when it comes to iPad because those users keep their devices far longer).