Most people don't have phones with all day battery.

Keeping this battery hogging app on 24x7 which does constant GPS lookups and WiFi scans and being constantly probed by and probing for other Bluetooth devices is something most of them just cannot do. https://twitter.com/blnaveen/status/1253726757431074818

There is a massive disconnect between software developers who are amongst the highest earning people who can afford the latest and greatest hardware and the average Indian.

Per capita income is Rs.1.35lpa / <12k per month.

Even entry level engineers earn many times that amount.

That's why when Aarogya Setu was launched it required Android 6.0 or newer.

The iSPIRT/ @India_Stack 'volunteers' who built the app earn 'upto 36 lakhs per year' and likely didn't find anyone in their ivory towers using anything older. https://twitter.com/kingslyj/status/1245836201682059265

And a week later they updated the app to run on Android 5.0 devices.

Shows how clueless and out of touch they are about their target userbase. https://twitter.com/kingslyj/status/1247912261328363520