I'm not an iPhone developer, but from my perspective this looks like a big problem for all apps that release products and/or updates only compatible with newer

I'm not an iPhone developer, but from my perspective this looks like a big problem for all apps that release products and/or updates only compatible with newer iPhones. These products/updates almost always warn the user in the descriptions, but these apps seem to always get flamed in comments and ratings anyways. To the iOS devs out there: * Have you run into this problem, and if so is this as frustrating as it seems? * Why can't/wont Apple create a better system for this? The conspiracy theorist in me wants to say that this is an awkwardly passive aggressive method of incentivizing all apps to be backwards compatible. Surely it can't be ignorance to this developer need, right?