Can I limit iPad deployment to iPad 2?

Question

Hiya guys, I've had a look at modifying the info.plist file (UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities) in my ADT-produced ipa files, and I haven't found a way to limit iPad distribution to iPad 2 only. It seems that you can require certain hardware, but not specific devices.
If you have any info it'd be much appreciated!
We want to limit it because our app runs fine on 3GS, 4, and iPad 2, but it blacks out and crashes intermittently on iPad 1. Memory usage is varying during the crash, so our working assumption is that the display is eating the conventional memory. More on that in another thread though!

Answer 1

As been mentioned, ideally you'd want to optimize the app to run well enough on the iPad 1, but one other option would be to specify device requirements in your Info.plist that would automatically limit the app to iPad 2s. You do this by listing device requirements, specifically still-camera and setting the device family to iPad only.
Check out UIDeviceRequiredCapabilities section here: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/general/Reference/InfoPlistKeyRefere nce/Articles/iPhoneOSKeys.html
So you could use a few device requirements that limit it to what the iPad2 supports. This needs to be added to the Info.plist. This can be done by adding the code in the -app.xml file before you compile the app, or by unzipping the ipa and modifying the Info.plist directly.
Really though, Apple is not going to look kindly on the idea of limiting the app based on perceived performance issues. There's a good chance that they'd still reject the app if you require certain hardware features, but don't actually use them in your code.
Another thing to consider, no one is going to read the description in the App Store to see if it runs on their devices. They'll download it and run it, and if it's poor performance, you'll get poor reviews. At least with limiting by hardware, the app won't install on their device (if Apple approves it of course).
Anyway, just a thought.
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