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This 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 litt

This 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 ago
Especially 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.