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> not rich white tech people living in suburbia, believe it or not.

Could really do without the racism. Tens of millions of non-white people have good phones.

It’s also a case of knowing your audience. If your app isn’t targeted towards Bangladesh, why optimize for those users? ForeFlight for example is native, iOS only. Should they release a version optimized for cheap Android devices? Of course not. People that can’t afford good hardware aren’t flying airplanes. Something like What’s App however, the audience is far more broad, so optimizing around the most users makes sense.

A non-native version of ForeFlight to me is a scary thought. Considering that it’s such a critical application being used by aviators in-flight.



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