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"21st century app" has to be the most bullshit term I have heard this week. You can build very small apps with a lot of features if you want. But when you keep
by foepys 8y ago
"21st century app" has to be the most bullshit term I have heard this week. You can build very small apps with a lot of features if you want. But when you keep pushing JavaScript technology into stuff just to rebuild what is already available on the platform (just in an "uncool" way), you end up with multiple almost 300 MB apps to share some images and text.
- yathern 8y ago> But when you keep pushing JavaScript technology into stuff... you end up with multiple almost 300 MB apps to share some images and text I would be hesitant to solely Javascript for the bloat of Instagram, and related apps. On phones, typically the WebView is used - not like using Electron where chromium + v8 is packaged with each application. A Cordova application can easily be in the single-digit MB range. Facebook is a native app - and is 300MB+ in size. A breakdown is available here: https://blog.timac.org/2017/0410-analysis-of-the-facebook-app-for-ios-v-87-0/ https://blog.timac.org/2017/0410-analysis-of-the-facebook-ap... Mostly it comes down to the fact that app size is not a prioritization.
- fatcatdog 8y agoAgreed, expensive phones can have lots of big sized apps
- pjc50 8y agoCompare with ""20th century apps""; Apollo went to the moon with 36kb (kilowords) ROM, now it takes a thousand times that to hail a taxi. (A lot of it is images, but still you have to wonder..)
- chosenbreed 8y agoHilarious!