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by sbierwagen 2050 days ago
Good. Those devices are unsafe, and should not be used.
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I think you might be ignorant with regards to how the rest of the world uses the internet.
But for certain businesses, there is a case to be made for not serving these kinds of customers. Someone using a shitty old Android phone might not even be able/willing to pay for your product, and if they do, might cost more in technical support and/or fraud (due to their device being vulnerable) than what they bring in revenue.
When you are a bank or a crypto exchange, that might make sense. When you are the municipality of a village in rural India or the company that handles all vehicle registrations, it does not.

You cannot gatekeep with such sweeping statements. People have old phones for lots of reasons. Others will have to serve those people for lots of other reasons.

Would you like to buy new phones for their owners?
The owners can just click through the prompt if they want...
and get used to clicking on the prompt because who cares about MITM