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Measuring on the hardware your readers own

A three-year-old phone on a shelf in the office does more for a team than any dashboard.

Buy the cheapest phone that appears meaningfully in your analytics, leave it in the office, and make it the device the demo runs on. Nothing changes a roadmap faster than watching a stakeholder wait.

Every team that bought the cheap phone stopped arguing about whether performance mattered within a month.

Priya Raman, accessibility specialist

Emulated throttling is a reasonable approximation of CPU, a poor approximation of memory pressure, and no approximation at all of how it feels.

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