• Jesus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Inevitably what happens after 5 years is that someone reports that the app doesn’t work well with a newer version of iOS or Android, and the person that led the engineering on it is gone, because much of your engineering org has turned over after 5 years.

    Then a new person jumps into the old project, finds out that it’s had 1 active user last year, then they question why they have to spend a week bug fixing something for one end user.

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      4 months ago

      As a developer, this is the answer. I can’t wait for the day I can finally stop supporting old Amazon Kindle devices.