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Another question has to be asked: do they have the motivation to reduce the size of apps? Earlier this year, Wechat released a revolutionary (kinda) feature ca
by real-hacker 9y ago
Another question has to be asked: do they have the motivation to reduce the size of apps?
Earlier this year, Wechat released a revolutionary (kinda) feature called 'Miniapp', it supports releasing apps within Wechat itself (a bunch of xml/js files). All major Internet companies published their own miniapp in Wechat, which include s the most-used feature of their full app, and only takes less than 1MB of space. Guess what? the miniapps are not adopted by most users, it became just a fad.
This means most users are not sensitive to the disk space used by an app. Apps know this, and thus don't have motivation to reduce the size.
- yorwba 9y agoI'm not sure how your anecdote is supposed to show that users don't care about disk space used by an app, as opposed to not liking one particular attempt to reduce it. WeChat also includes a feature to manage storage space on a per-chat basis, and I have used it before when I ran out of space. Thing is, some Android users (like me) are at the limit of their internal storage and some apps can't be moved to an external SD card for some reason. Before installing a new app (or indeed just an update), I have to decide which of the hellishly bloated apps on my phone I can delete to free up space.
- oblio 9y agoThey don't. It's the same race we had at the start of the PC race. Most of the "optimizers" optimized themselves out of existence while twiddling bits in assembler.