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Used and refurb devices are a thing.

I'm not justifying badly-optimized sites/apps but frankly I don't expect an entry level 4 cylinder gas-powered car to perform the same as a high-end EV.

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Me neither, and if I wanted to play the fanciest mobile games, or something else that truly needs the compute, I'd get the tool to do it. A simple app that provably worked fine on a low-end device being ruined by added bloat just because they restyled the visuals still sucks. Especially because the app (Flashfood) is for budget conscious shoppers, who may disproportionately have lower-end devices.

Yeah it's not okay to foist poorly tested releases on users.

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