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I'm 37, QBasic since 7, built my first Linux box at 12. (25 years ago. My god)

I have learned to appreciate, and let slide, a good hand-wavy "get off my lawn" formatted anecdote to relate history...if it owns it and isn't slippery in the process.

Here, we're sort of waving at "if websites weren't in JS, the imaginary phone would have loaded the imaginary page instead of saying "oh snap", which clearly indicated it was out of RAM"

Some errata:

Android can play more than 2 media streams at once.

A 2GB phone isn't a modern phone. I worked on Android and that was our Emerging Markets™ standard (read: dirt cheapest phone expected to work ok) in 2018, 7 years ago.



> Android can play more than 2 media streams at once.

From what I can glean that's only if the apps allow that, by not requesting the audio focus, and the documentation recommends to request it.

It's indeed very rare to find two (or more) apps that can play audio at the same time.

Not to mention that you can't set the volume of the individual apps (unless they have their own volume controls).

> A 2GB phone isn't a modern phone. I worked on Android and that was our Emerging Markets™ standard (read: dirt cheapest phone expected to work ok) in 2018, 7 years ago.

He might have meant 2GB of free ram, and so at least a 4GB phone.




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