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‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Even if I was willing to download all of those apps I don't have room for them. They chew up 50-300mb each (why!?) and if I installed all of them I'd run out of memory. Since most phones now don't support memory expansion I have to be picky about which ones I use.

I have THREE separate parking apps because I travel.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The reason they're so huge is

  1. They're generally not well optimized by the creators.
  2. They all contain their own dependencies
  3. There's a LOT of stuff in them (both code and dependencies). Which is kind of an optimization problem, but potato potato.
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Mobile apps are also loaded with third party ad and spyware frameworks which bloats up the size.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

Same thing with rendering/layout/functionality frameworks. And each app has their own.

My favorite Android app, Trail Sense, which has the ability to know when sunrise and sunset are without Internet, is like 10MB