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Not exactly. If e.g. an app using more space antagonizes users to the point of not using it, any competent PM would mitigate that.
by johnfn 9y ago
Not exactly. If e.g. an app using more space antagonizes users to the point of not using it, any competent PM would mitigate that.
- mikeash 9y agoSure, but there's no particular reason that cost would line up with the cost of additional storage they're imposing on their users.
- jlgaddis 9y agoThis is probably true for your "average" app, but how many people are gonna uninstall Facebook (the #1 app, according to TFA) just because it's taking up a little more space? I doubt the total installed size of the FB app is very high on their list of concerns.
- mikeash 9y agoEspecially since space is fungible, so deleting 300MB of other apps will have the same effect. Facebook's wastefulness here could be causing users to abandon other apps.
- jacobolus 9y agoLatency definitely antagonizes users to the point of reducing use, and from what I can tell very few tech company PMs are “competent” at keeping latency of their apps/websites down, when faced with competing pressures like shipping new features, rearranging everything in the UI, switching front-end rendering strategy, gathering increasing amounts of invasive analytic data, or cramming more ads in. Certainly not the ones at Facebook, Google, etc. Nobody gets promoted for “we shipped less new features but our latency remained constant”, or “we shipped less new features but reduced device battery use by 10%”.