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It's also a developer's duty (in my opinion) to consider the device's capabilities that the software is made to run on. If you have to develop software for an extremely limited embedded device, that should allow users to install extra stuff onto it, you better focus on actually leaving them space to do so.
A bit of snark.
Introductions:
n0nce this is reality, reality this is n0nce apparently you never met each other yet :-)
I guess yeah; developers always try to squeeze out the most out of the available hardware - even to this day. However, these days I see this mostly for example in AAA games, where sometimes at launch date nobody really owns the hardware to run them. But I feel like 'getting the most out of the hardware' should also mean making it run as good as possible, for as long as possible. I noticed in recent years smartphones running longer and better than in the past, where a 2013 application could slow a 2012 phone down to the point of 'unusability'.Also, just because a bad practice is going on for a long time, doesn't mean it should continue. Especially if a manufacturer makes the hardware and the software, they need to make sure it runs. If they're different, they can always blame it on the other party; but that's not the case with Ledger and their Ledger apps.