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The vast majority of people don't care about the app size unless it's blown out of proportion. If Apple started to charge for bandwidth transparently at market
by vladdanilov 9y ago
The vast majority of people don't care about the app size unless it's blown out of proportion.
If Apple started to charge for bandwidth transparently at market price, that would make a lot of difference. But right now if an app is within the Over-the-Air limit of 100MB, developers don't really care.
Look at Apple's own best practices. No incremental updates, zip compression when brotli and zstd already there, forcing its own pngcrush which just hurts compression without any real benefits for loading time and now it's a mandatory for Asset Catalogs and App Thinning.
- weavie 9y agoI disagree. My phone is completely full, every new app I install requires going through and deciding which apps I need to delete to make space for it. Large apps get chopped pretty much straight away unless they are exceptional.
- vladdanilov 9y agoIf the vast majority did care, there would not be a 419 MB Facebook app. I personally analyzed a number of apps and found image assets can be reduced by 30-50%. Not only caring, working on the solution.
- pjmlp 9y agoPeople do care, but there is a big difference between Facebook and unknown developer X.
- vladdanilov 9y agoThen why do I get all these ignorance and downvotes by taking action?
- HappyTypist 9y agoI hope Apple charges for bandwidth at ridiculously inflated AWS prices. Ignore the first 100MB of an app and offer a devs a $2500/month budget.
- pjmlp 9y agoPeople do care, there are sessions at Google IO, WWDC, BUILD where they try to make developers aware that size is one metric by which many people uninstall apps.