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

  • Madis@lemm.ee
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    1 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.

    • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 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.

      • CrabLangEnjoyer@lemmy.world
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        1 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.

        • RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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          1 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.

            • RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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              1 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.

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                1 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.