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>which they haven't used lately Then why does it matter? What was going to bring them back? Notifications you try to lure them in with just drive them away, a

• derefr 9y ago
  Most of the third-party apps on my phone are either 1. purpose-specific utilities (track a flight, track a package, call a taxi, etc.); 2. chat apps that I have no presence on myself; 3. casual games. I come back to a utility app when I next need to do the thing it's for. But if that's infrequent enough, I might delete the app in the mean-time, and then reinstall it when I next need to do the thing. But given that I'll already be in the app-store, I might look for a competitor instead. At that point, your app's size has churned me. I come back to a chat app if-and-only-if someone gives me their username on such a chat app as their only contact information, and I really want to talk to them. (Think: dating.) Otherwise, I delete these pretty much as fast as I can, because in aggregate the sheer number of these I accumulate takes up a lot of space no matter how small they each are individually. (And often they're not small individually.) I come back to a casual game when I'm bored and want to kill time. Casual (i.e. "five minutes at a time") games are roughly substitute goods for one-another, though, so it doesn't matter if I delete any individual one as long as I have some on my phone. (Or a book to read. Either-or.) These are usually the apps where the actual size is the most relevant.