I'm not sure this is necessary. The need to use the master channel is noted at the very top of the file (lines 3-4), and while the CocoaPod issue you ran into was certainly annoying, I don't know that I'd want to peg the project to a specific version of CocoaPods. Are we, for example, going to remember in the future to test how far back we're compatible with CocoaPods and update this file as necessary?

What about instead adding a sentence in the SimpleIOSExample section that people should use the latest version, whatever that may be? That section will need to be expanded/refactored in the future anyway, since there will likely be several individual apps in the folder that will require a pod install, and we won't want to copy out the same instructions for each one.