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by fuzxi 2057 days ago
1-5% of traffic that comes from people using devices that are at least 4 years old. Someone who can't or won't upgrade from a phone that still uses Android Marshmallow is probably not bringing in much revenue.
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Exactly. The “easy choice” is to drop support for those users. I suspect most web developers won’t even notice.

It’s a pity - there’s no essential reason why old phones with new batteries should get worse over time. But software kills them in so many ways.