Well i am certainly not using reddit on my tablet anymore.

  • Pog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    What is that app possibly made of that it cant run on literally anything? It’s just an app for text and images. I dont get it, is it optimized like an actual potato?

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      1 year ago

      is it optimized like an actual potato?

      Back when it was still in beta, it went through a period where it drained my battery from 100% to dead in under 30 minutes.

      Just by being installed, not even actually using it.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, look at the facebook app. They had to do “optimizations”, because they ran into limits of Android’s Dalvik a few years back.

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        1 year ago

        What makes it even more ridiculous is that it was originally a perfectly functional 3rd party app that they bought out. AlienBlue worked on ipads. A decade ago.

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      1 year ago

      Could be a library or feature that the devs didn’t consider worth maintaining on older devices.

      For context, the OP appears to be using Android 5 or 5.1, released in 2014/2015 respectively and is used on 1.1-1.3% devices worldwide.

      • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
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        What a stupid anti-human shit, I hate it. All my devices from 10 years ago are still perfectly fine and operational, and I can’t use them because of some people’s laziness. They are used on 1% devices not because they are necessarily bad or broken but because it’s impossible to use them now for arbitrary reasons.

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          1 year ago

          This really has nothing to do with being lazy, a lot of modern software just straight up isn’t supported anymore on such old systems. Making it compatible and testing it on those old platforms makes no business sense at all. Far too expensive with little to no benefit overall.

          If anyone is to blame here it’s the phone manufacturers that don’t provide updates to those devices.

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            1 year ago

            Exactly. Rag on Reddit all you want, but a company maintaining compatibility with an almost 10 year old OS version is a bit much.

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                1 year ago

                Exactly, they EOL it after 10 years. And that’s MICROSOFT. Reddit is smaller by many orders of magnitude.

                If anything, backward compatibility is Google’s fault.

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                  1 year ago

                  Bingo. For a lot of devices, especially anything made after 2015-ish, there’s no real reason why mid to high-end devices couldn’t be running the most recent OS version outside of “it’s a lot of work to certify updates for so many devices”. Thankfully Android has a custom ROM scene which keeps devices going for a few years longer.