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this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2026
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Almost 300mb to show the weather? Apple should be ashamed.
300mb is what apps on Android used to take up back when 4GB RAM was standard. Macs have shipped with 8GB on base model for many years. This is not an issue, sorry
Relative size it’s ok. Absolute it’s still way too much for what the app is doing.
Have you used the app in question? There’s animated hi res backgrounds that have to be loaded for diff locations, a live map, tons of detailed widgets and animations… 300MB seems reasonable to me. You might not want any of these things on a weather app, hence there are many to choose from out there ;)
I am sure that it is reasonable to make the app this big. But timid still big because app size was just not a priority. There was a time when apple cared about that too and they don’t anymore. That I am lamenting. Yeah, I‘l go back in my grumpy old man corner.