yeah but the problem is: which budget are you optimizing? That of the company of course. You offload a lot of bullcrap onto the end user. Like the author said, wasting electricity and battery life and thousands of devices just because you cant be bothered to generate html on the server to serve simple text is a common thing for news sites.
This is wasting the time as well of the end user, because its slower to load, and lower performant on the device itself
> yeah but the problem is: which budget are you optimizing? That of the company of course.
The budget of the company is predicated upon what the user will be willing to pay for the service.
You’re wasting electricity and battery life of thousands of devices of users who don’t care or want to “vote with their feet”.
Now obviously users are also constrained by what is made available to them, but time and again the shiny and early to market wins out even if it’s a literal trash fire…
This is wasting the time as well of the end user, because its slower to load, and lower performant on the device itself