Hello everyone!

My latest blog post was about app makers making it difficult for me to keep using my sort of old phone. I never wrote something getting this much attention in such a short time: 11 000 people read in just a few days. I found the post was shared on Lobsters and on Hacker News and got many comments. It was nice to see even the Hacker News crowd constructive in their comments. My take-away from the discussions and the messages I received is:

• The better computers get, the sloppier programmers program, causing memory issues.
• The iPhone SE doesn’t have a lot of memory, but shouldn’t need a lot of memory for the things I do with it it either.
• It shouldn’t be hard to save the state of an app. Apps that completely reset after only seconds or minutes of being in the background are not well-made.
• People using newer phones too have these issues!
• Despite this post being about me not wanting to buy a new phone, people really like to recommend the model they’ve chosen for themselves.
• There are remarkably few ideas on what to do about the systemic part of the problem. I like one commenter’s idea though: laws not allowing telcos’ subscriptions to include a new device every two years.

Have a great Sunday!

Koos

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