Why apple is not allowing iphone 3gs to update into ios 7 ?

This is not good :(

Only Apple knows the precise reason why that older phone is not capable of running the next version of iOS. But the reason is most likely the same as why the original iPad cannot be updated to iOS 6 or later. As the operating system get more advanced it requires more processing power and memory. Older devices just won't be able to cut it.

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