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Not Every User Owns an iPhone
As software engineers and technologists its common to have access to some powerful devices and super fast bandwidths. It's highly likely that you will be developing/testing on a high end Mac (or similar) or pulling out an expensive mobile device such as an iPhone from your pocket. But we need to be
We need to take care that we don’t end up sitting in ivory towers thinking performance of our applications is rosy, when in the wild our users are facing a different reality. This metric could provide a good understanding of how our split of users are handling the resources that are delivered as part of the page, i.e. the JavaScript! Alex Russell’s Performance equality gap highlights that the Android user base typically will be on lower powered devices compared to those with an iPhone.
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