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Great, so your advice is if I can use a device that is a few years old, I just have to buy the latest version of $BRANDED_PRODUCT. Developers can actively support or resist this wasteful practice. It seems pretty clear where you stand on this.

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I have no idea what you're trying to say. I'm not offering advice, I'm saying I build applications to be useful, not to conform to a set of abstract ideals. If 1% of visitors can't use it, I need to weigh the value of serving those 1% vs the value of spending my time building features.

I'm not Google or Facebook. My team at work is me and two co-ops. I'm not going to triple our development time just so I can get some Internet back pats from purists.

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