Apple TestFlight beta testing

[Kay C Lan]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Chris Sheffield
<cmsheffield at icloud.com> wrote:
>but it bothers me a bit that beta testing requires the testers to have iOS 8 on their devices. What if we want/need to test our apps on older >versions of iOS?

But isn't the iOS 8 requirement so the up coming '1,000 Beta Testers'
can be implemented? Just another way to 'persuade' uptake of a new
iOS.