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> When I asked about people on mobile with older devices, they preached that anyone who isn't on the latest model, or the one just preceding it, isn't worth tar
by secondcoming 6y ago
> When I asked about people on mobile with older devices, they preached that anyone who isn't on the latest model, or the one just preceding it, isn't worth targeting.
Looking at twitter links on my aging iPad is a painful experience these days.
- userbinator 6y agoTwitter, where displaying short pieces of text and occasionally images and very occasionally video can require extravagant amounts of processing power that can only be found in the latest hardware and software... Years ago, it was a common conspiracy theory that the hardware manufacturers were forcing obolescence --- and to a certain extent they still are --- but now it seems software developers have outdone the hardware manufacturers without any help from the latter...
- jodrellblank 6y agoWirth's Law, 1995 - "software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster", attributed to back to 1987 or so. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law
- andrepd 6y agoSimply compare with nitter.net to see how the exact same content can easily be presented in a simple, lean, fast way.
- anthk 6y agohttps://m.twitter.com https://m.twitter.com or https://nitter.com https://nitter.com Use Privacy Redirect in Firefox/Chrome for iOS if you can.
- secondcoming 6y agomobile.twitter.com is also terrible