I wouldn’t take it too seriously. It’s just a HN opinion that always gets upvoted because it’s the right intersection of anti-Big Tech, pro-environment and not

I wouldn’t take it too seriously. It’s just a HN opinion that always gets upvoted because it’s the right intersection of anti-Big Tech, pro-environment and not wanting to change your own workflow (https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/). People who’ve actually had to maintain software that supports old hardware understand that it is a business decision. Is the cost of supporting older hardware (harder to maintain software, unable to use newer APIs, need to maintain multiple, rarely used code paths) greater than the benefit (revenue, network effect of keeping users)? At Meta with billions of users the network effect and revenue means that they’ll never stop supporting Android 5 and up. But for a small app with a couple million users and a few thousand users on the oldest OS, it won’t make sense. People actively throwing their toys out their pram choose not to understand this trade off. They think this can be solved with regulation like it’s a magic wand that makes economic trade offs disappear.