Why Facebook Forces A Bunch Of Its Engineers To Use Terrible, Low-End Phones

You might not expect to find many flip phones in the high-tech and free-food laden Facebook offices, but your expectations would be wrong. Facebook is creating a special lab filled with low-end Android smartphones,"crappy old flip phones," and weak networking to help the company study the computing conditions in parts of the world like rural India that either have limited internet or none at all. Developers have to try to use Facebook's apps on super-old versions of Android so they can understan...