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Re:Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days by jpatokal on Friday July 13, 2018 @08:20PM (#17527940)
If you really need just calls, dumbphones are still a thing, and I see plenty for sale here in provincial China (/me waves from Xining). The article's point is that cheap smartphones aren't working well for their intended users because the vast majority of apps aren't designed for their limitations.
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Re:Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days by oneTimePeet on Saturday July 14, 2018 @08:28AM (#17530061)
Well, this should be easy- open the Git-Repository from five years ago, compile the old version of the app and release.

The irony is - you cant do that, because maybe, just maybee all your current users would drop the HOT NEW SHINY, bloat-add-ware in the store, like a hot rock, if they could go back to something basic- basically have the whats-app experience, before the feature bloat came.

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