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

  • CrabLangEnjoyer@lemmy.world
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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.