I complained that an app was slowing down my phone and eating my data plan, and was told to buy a better phone and a better data plan.
The app was "free" , but it costed me €10/month for the data plan and would have require a new phone.
Got rid of the app, lowered the data plan again, happily using my old phone. The End.
People don't even realize that bad code is often why they keep needing new hardware.
Like Windows versus Linux Mint.
code quality and quality of languages altogether has declined in the last 20 years
the cost of cheap hardware is going down fast tho... this little mini box i got to run my bitcoin node came with 8gb memory and has an nvme socket in it, and usb-C one on front one on back... was 141 euro
but browsers, that's another thing, they are the mother asshole of all shitcode
chrome managed to dial that back a few years but it keeps on creeping
