Most popular apps receive regular updates to keep up with the demands from users using high-end smartphones.
But more than often, introducing more features and capabilities make users using older phones feel neglected. Their less powerful phones struggle to run apps that demand ever-more-powerful processors, more RAM and more storage space.
Here, Skype is receiving an update specifically for phones running Android KitKat version 4.0.3 and Lollipop 5.1.
This is to show that Microsoft is not neglecting those users using low-end and less powerful phones, which make quite a lot of Skype's user base.
Announcing the update on its blog post, the company said it will be, "lighter on both disk and memory consumption, allowing for greater speed and better audio and video quality on lower end Android devices, as well as increased performance in challenging network conditions."
Previously, Google has made a similar approach when the company released Android Go, which is a stripped down version of Android that doesn't need as much processing power, RAM, or storage. Go itself is primarily designed to work in places with limited internet connectivity, and come with apps that are also designed to work on such limitations.
Skype is also not the first communication app to go this route. Facebook has also done it when it rolled out Messenger Lite and Facebook Lite, both have some features and clutters removed so they can run on phones having limited specs and limited internet connectivity.
Twitter also did the same with its app.
Not everyone gets to enjoy high-end technology and stable high-speed internet connection. Here, tech giant in showing special attention to this pool of users using low-end smartphones and those living in rural areas, is nothing new.
The emphasis on apps having less feature to run on less data and performance is certainly useful for those that live in places where the latest smartphones aren't available or affordable.
And for Microsoft, that is rolling out the update to all Skype users, promises that it will bring better audio and video quality for lower-end devices, in addition to better performance when internet connection isn’t so great.