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> When I asked about people on mobile with older devices, they preached that anyone who isn't on the latest model, or the one just preceding it, isn't worth targeting.

Looking at twitter links on my aging iPad is a painful experience these days.



Twitter, where displaying short pieces of text and occasionally images and very occasionally video can require extravagant amounts of processing power that can only be found in the latest hardware and software...

Years ago, it was a common conspiracy theory that the hardware manufacturers were forcing obolescence --- and to a certain extent they still are --- but now it seems software developers have outdone the hardware manufacturers without any help from the latter...


Wirth's Law, 1995 - "software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster", attributed to back to 1987 or so.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law


Simply compare with nitter.net to see how the exact same content can easily be presented in a simple, lean, fast way.


https://m.twitter.com or https://nitter.com

Use Privacy Redirect in Firefox/Chrome for iOS if you can.


mobile.twitter.com is also terrible




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