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QA should be done on a cheapest phone available to buy at the telcos 2 years ago.
by ajsnigrutin 5y ago
QA should be done on a cheapest phone available to buy at the telcos 2 years ago.
- judge2020 5y agoFor Microsoft sure, but people who buy the cheapest phone aren’t the target customer for most products.
- Retric 5y agoI’ve seen some very rich people use some shockingly old hardware. It’s not about penny pinching, many don’t think about upgrading regularly largely because upgrading tends to be an annoying process.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoLike, you know, calling, navigation, discount codes or news. Not latest iPhone = poor, right?
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoDepends.... Social networks, bank apps, chat apps, casual games, productivity apps, music/video players,... basically everything except new games still should work, even on shitty phones.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoIf it involves spending money and your business model isn’t to make pennies at massive scale, it makes no sense to optimize for those who actively reduce costs. I don’t remember the exact percentages, but there’s a quip that Apple has something like 90% of the profit with under 30% market share.
- selectodude 5y agoApple had over 100 percent of the profit in the phone market for a quarter a few years ago. Every android handset maker lost money.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoSo, throw away literally billions of users worldwide? Outside of USA, apple has a very, very small market share, and cheap (weak) android phones are the norm. For example, Facebook ("lite") and google ("go") already optimize their apps to those markets. Why not eg McDonalds?
- judge2020 5y agoSome businesses optimize for profit and not userbase or mindshare.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoNot every business earns its revenue by casting the widest net possible. Focus on users who are known to have the discretionary funds to buy new iPhones and then you’ve also focused on users who aren’t as likely to penny-pinch when deciding whether to pay for your products.
- xmprt 5y agoTons of Apple users are still on old phones like iPhone 8 or even 6S. Those are still counted in the 30% market share but they have slow phones.