iOS 11 reviewed
> Practically speaking, do I need to be able to play phone games from 2009 on my 2017 iPhone? Not really.<p>The problem is not that you can't play phone games from 2009 on your 2017 iPhone, tying 32b deprecation to a hardware revision would actually have been nice (regardless of the hardware still being able to run in 32b mode).<p>But that's not what's happening, the problem is that you can't play phone games from 2009 on your 2013~2016 iPhone <i>which had been able to run them right until you updated iOS</i>.<p>> users (who get some free space back in iOS 11)<p>"Free space" which they could already have gained back by removing the applications in the first place.