This is why smartphone ASPs continue to fall. The Bharat 2 buyer couldn't afford the G4.
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By volume, phones aren't getting faster, they're getting cheaper and will continue to do so until NBU markets saturate the way established markets did in '12.
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2014's phone never went away. It's still with us and in ever greater numbers. THESE ARE YOUR CUSTOMERS AND USERS.
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Think they're not? The second largest market for cheap Android devices is the US. Let that really sink in.https://www.androidauthority.com/android-go-usa-market-773723/ …
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It's great to see some press around how tough these devices are, but the framing is misleading: this isn't an NBU thing. It's everywhere. 2014's undead tech is in the hands of your users.
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Outlets like
@CNET,@verge, and@TechCrunch have totally, utterly, entirely failed at this beat. People you know and care about have been failed badly as a result. And no, it's not improving (@PranavDixit's piece being a rare and therefore notable exception)1 reply 1 retweet 8 likesShow this thread -
No outrage, no opinion pieces calling out the vendors like
@Qualcomm,@SamsungSemiUS, and@MediaTek who continue to pump out crappy, underpowered chips on ancient process nodes because "budget segment".1 reply 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
This is paired with a lack of honest, detail-oriented coverage of the lived experience of most user's devices. It's abdication of journalism's one legit calling: holding the powerful to account.
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And if you're a web developer, the takeaway is suuuuuper simple: "modern", JS-heavy frontend doesn't work for most of your users; at least not without serious discipline and infrastructure. DIY front-end infra ISN'T WORKING.
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The only serious options I know of today are Preact CLI and Polymer PWA Starter Kit. Vue sadly leaves this as an exercise to the reader: https://router.vuejs.org/guide/advanced/lazy-loading.html#grouping-components-in-the-same-chunk … Honourable mention to Svelte for just being so darned small, delaying the onset of the problem.
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Let's be super specific about this: if your team or project stated with "just the framework" and a hand-me-down webpack config that you're bolting onto, you're probably failing. Not maybe, very probably with high confidence.
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You literally cannot afford today's "best-practice" popular frameworks unless you're making websites exclusively for Gucci or Porsche. They literally set you up to fail.
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