Slow; users of prior iOS versions locked out

This app is incredibly slow. We still cannot do much of whats on the website (like mark reviews as "useful" or "not useful", which is something finally available in the App Store).

Its also aggressively locking out users of prior versions of iOS. I know this is because Apple want you to buy new stuff from them every fiscal year, but this kind of anti-customer behavior will have an impact eventually. Apple recently acknowledged messing up with pros, maybe theyll do some soul searching overall. The MBA types are running the show.

Prior Review from 2015:

If you hate iOS 7s ugliness, Apple has tightened the screws on pushing us to it. Then again, I have yet to actually NEED this app, so I guess it doesnt matter. I wonder when the App Store will lock out iOS 6 users... I keep hoping Apple will backpedal on the design horribleness in subsequent versions after 7, but 8 is barely an improvement on those horrible unreadable fonts and non-controls. Oh, and iPhone 4 users are capped at iOS 7 anyway. Another reason not to "upgrade" is how much slower iPhone 4 becomes with iOS 7.

Bah.

Original, outdated, review from some time in 2007 or 2008:

since Apple has not the wisdom to make a mobile/iPhone version of its website, this app should have been a great opportunity to solve that problem for their iPhone customers.

its not.

as is, this app cannot do even 1/4 the things that the website version does. this is a shame. its exactly the kind of quick website port to iPhone app that Apple says it wants to avoid by blocking things like Flash on the iPhone.

Come on, Apple, you should set a great example here instead of doing the bare minimum.

also... why do you have three web-based, separate, Apple "product" stores to begin with?

iTunes.
App Store.
Apple Store.

What the heck? Put this all together in one elegant & accessible GUI instead of having three separate worlds. itd save you resources in the long run.

dysamoria about Apple Store, v4.2