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I have always been of the opinion that no software should ever be released until the entire development team has spent at least a week personally running it on

• muzani 3y ago
  "running it on ten year old hardware" This doesn't work for mobile though :p iOS versions are obsolete within 2 years and Android within 5. Generally, Android devs tend to have at least one Huawei, Xiaomi, or low end Samsung, because these break a lot and hold a good share of the non-American market. However, the high end phones have their own pain - notches, fold, edge screens. I've built apps that didn't function well because the edge screens meant that buttons needed extra side padding because they fall off the screen. These are also the devices used by investors & in demos, so often high end phones are higher priority than the low ones. There's some problems that have nothing to do with device age. Samsung gallery is one of the top image/file picker apps in the world and there's weird behavior once it exceeds 2000 images or so. I ended up hacking a file/image picker that was more optimized than Samsung's and it's why you see why many apps defauting to their own internal file/image pickers.