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The premise of "you should test on slower devices and connections" 100%. The way the article is framed, 0%.

This is absolutely not an "iOS vs Android" discussion, and the author completely misses this fact.

Bad connections deserve more attention. Slower devices too, but at least they get some attention even if too many people ignore them. The amount of code that can’t handle brief transient network errors is crazy and I hardly see it discussed. You don’t have to be in the middle of nowhere, either. I’m in dense suburbs, with gigabit fiber and pretty fast 5G, and apps will still fall apart if I’m using them while I walk away from my house as the device tries to decide if the weakening WiFi signal justifies switching to cellular yet.

I don't understand, isn't one of the main points of the article that even older iPhones (like the four year old iPhone 12) are still vastly more powerful than what most Android users have? There are numbers and graphs that show that web pages load significantly faster for iPhone users than for Android users.

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