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

  • Madis
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    241 year ago

    Could be a library or feature that the devs didn’t consider worth maintaining on older devices.

    For context, the OP appears to be using Android 5 or 5.1, released in 2014/2015 respectively and is used on 1.1-1.3% devices worldwide.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      What a stupid anti-human shit, I hate it. All my devices from 10 years ago are still perfectly fine and operational, and I can’t use them because of some people’s laziness. They are used on 1% devices not because they are necessarily bad or broken but because it’s impossible to use them now for arbitrary reasons.

      • @[email protected]
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        331 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          141 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.

          • SirShanova
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            31 year ago

            Windows 8.1 Release: October 17, 2013 Windows 8 EoL: January 10, 2023

            • @[email protected]
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              31 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.

              • @[email protected]
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                21 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Mobile devices have become like 20x more powerful in the last 10 years lol. Found my Dad’s old Galaxy S3 while cleaning the house, and it was still in working condition. Just soo freaking slow cause all the websites and were made for better hardware.

        • @[email protected]
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          01 year ago

          Yeah, except for the fact that modern Samsung s20 is not really that much more powerful than your s3. Sure it has more RAM, significantly more, but the processor is barely twice as good.
          10 years old device has plenty power to run whatever website can offer, apart from maybe some battery degradation. Hell, I have 20 years old laptop that can do that. The reason it doesn’t is not technical, it’s almost exclusively economical, by which I mean “lazy cheap bastards don’t give a flying fuck about the mountains of e-waste we produce”

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            This is just an ignorant take on things. The S20 has like 4x the core count, and each one of those is at least 2x as energy efficient, and 4x more powerful.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            No way the S20 is only slightly more powerful than an S3. If you’re not using any CPU intensive apps, such as games, then yeah, you aren’t going to see a massive difference. My S7 still runs well enough for browsing, music, and videos, but my S10 will run circles around it if I actually leverage its capabilities.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        One of the reasons is security, older Android APIs let your apps do whatever they want. You probably could try to find an apk that would work on older devices, but google has minimal API requirements that involve permissions and data access, and if your app doesn’t support them it wont be allowed on the Play Store. So even if devs supported other devices, you wouldn’t find the app on the store.