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Tbh that is a significant decrease. Find me a compression algorithm that can compress already compressed binary data by 30% and I'll give you a million dollars
by adtac 8y ago
Tbh that is a significant decrease. Find me a compression algorithm that can compress already compressed binary data by 30% and I'll give you a million dollars (after I make a few million dollars myself).
- verelo 8y agoPlease, it’s a big drop in terms of percentage, but it’s absurdly large for what the app does.
- adtac 8y agoOh I completely agree it's bloated as fuck, but your statement that it's not a significant decrease is untrue. Edit: sorry, just saw you're not the person I replied to.
- verelo 8y agoNo worries :) and yeah, i just don’t get it. I oversaw the development of a high ranking app for the last 6 years and it was a massive focus of ours to keep it small for as long as possible. We saw that conversion dropped as the app grew, we assume as the size grew it encouraged people to wait for wifi or their next months data before they would start the download.
- toast0 8y agoNot so much for iOS as on Android, because Apple doesn't sell devices with nearly zero space; some people are constantly out of space -- you don't want to be listed high on sort current apps by size.
- verelo 8y agoOur research indicated the issue was more around data transfer and access to wifi, less around storage.
- jmull 8y agoWell, bloated af before, bloated af after... I guess you can argue about the definition of significant but at that point I think you’ve lost the argument by default.
- saagarjha 8y ago> Find me a compression algorithm that can compress already compressed binary data by 30% App thinning does not compress the app; it just pulls out stuff that doesn’t match the device the app is being installed on. And keep in mind that most application binaries are far from random data.
- adtac 8y agoI know, I'm just using compression as an argument to show how significant 30%+ is.