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Yes, I've been prompted by Reddit to download the app many, many times (to the point that it's basically brainwashing), yet I've closed it every single time. It

Yes, I've been prompted by Reddit to download the app many, many times (to the point that it's basically brainwashing), yet I've closed it every single time. It's annoying actually. The web app is great, I don't know why they want me to fill up my phone's hard drive with another useless app.

vxxzy 8y ago
You can collect more data with an app.
- scarface74 8y ago
  What useful data can you collect with the app that you can’t from visiting a website?
  - masonic 8y ago
    The Reddit app happily sucks all kinds of content from your phone. It demands access to your location, storage, and full network access, unsupervised.
    - scarface74 8y ago
      It won’t work on Android if you deny permission for location and storage? There is an explicit per app setting on iOS that can stop most apps from running in the background. This is partially why Android users have to be as careful about downloading apps as Windows users.
scarface74 8y ago
The Reddit app for iOS is 55.8MB. Not exactly a bloated app.
- wolco 8y ago
  55.8 mg is bloated. A news reader should be under 30 ideally 20 or less
  - earenndil 8y ago
    (I beta-tested it) it started out at around 5mb. It slowly increased to around 20-30mb, and around that time I lost interest.
- jondubois 8y ago
  That's massive. My phone hard drive is pretty full so I often have to delete stuff to make room for other stuff.
- masonic 8y ago
  For perspective, imagine installing such a low-utility program spanning 39 high-density 1.44MB diskettes... and considering that not bloated. (Isn't that more than the entire original Linux distributions from the copyfest era?)
  - scarface74 8y ago
    That reminds me, imagine installing it on my first Mac with an 80MB hard drive. My entire SoftPC install with a disk image was only about 10MB. And Windows 95 was only 55MB install. https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1060820-how-big-were-the-different-windows-versions-95-19-mb/ https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1060820-how-big-were-the-...

vxxzy 8y ago

You can collect more data with an app.

scarface74 8y ago
What useful data can you collect with the app that you can’t from visiting a website?
- masonic 8y ago
  The Reddit app happily sucks all kinds of content from your phone. It demands access to your location, storage, and full network access, unsupervised.
  - scarface74 8y ago
    It won’t work on Android if you deny permission for location and storage? There is an explicit per app setting on iOS that can stop most apps from running in the background. This is partially why Android users have to be as careful about downloading apps as Windows users.

scarface74 8y ago

The Reddit app for iOS is 55.8MB. Not exactly a bloated app.

wolco 8y ago
55.8 mg is bloated. A news reader should be under 30 ideally 20 or less
- earenndil 8y ago
  (I beta-tested it) it started out at around 5mb. It slowly increased to around 20-30mb, and around that time I lost interest.
jondubois 8y ago
That's massive. My phone hard drive is pretty full so I often have to delete stuff to make room for other stuff.
masonic 8y ago
For perspective, imagine installing such a low-utility program spanning 39 high-density 1.44MB diskettes... and considering that not bloated. (Isn't that more than the entire original Linux distributions from the copyfest era?)
- scarface74 8y ago
  That reminds me, imagine installing it on my first Mac with an 80MB hard drive. My entire SoftPC install with a disk image was only about 10MB. And Windows 95 was only 55MB install. https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1060820-how-big-were-the-different-windows-versions-95-19-mb/ https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1060820-how-big-were-the-...