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Facebook's app has a super-bloated > 100MB binary: http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-the-facebook-ios-application-is-so http://quellish

by bdrool 11y ago

Facebook's app has a super-bloated > 100MB binary: http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-the-facebook-ios-application-is-so http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-th... I think they have something like 150+ iOS devs, so they're almost up to a megabyte per dev!

maccard 11y ago
Messenger is another facebook app, which is almost 100MB on top of having facebook installed.
toxican 11y ago
This is partly why I just stick to the mobile version of the site. It's a slightly buggy sometimes (repetitious frontpage), but it works well enough and it isn't draining my battery in the background for no reason.