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It's a bit unfair to compare the mobile app with the Linux distro, given that mobile apps aren't supporting dynamic feature loading (or weren't at that time), s
by OleGG 6y ago
It's a bit unfair to compare the mobile app with the Linux distro, given that mobile apps aren't supporting dynamic feature loading (or weren't at that time), so everything should be bundled. Imagine that any "screen" you need to access _must_ be bundled within the distro. So, compared to Linux distro – you should have your local mirror of all possible features any particular user would like to have. For example, Gentoo handbook says "Hosting a mirror requires a minimum of 550 GiB available disk space." 550 GiB just to run a Chromium? No – to have an opportunity to run it when you'll need it, because it's all or nothing. Either you get every program with all of its features, or get nothing at all.
- saagarjha 6y agoOh, no, I wasn't including "you can download packages" in this–I want it to be a fair comparison. Take a medium-weight Linux distribution and put it on a laptop and go on an island somewhere, if you want to tilt the comparison in the favor of Uber, which can of course still download assets from the internet and be backed by a server doing significant work for it. At that point I think it's still difficult to make the argument that Uber is somehow composed of more "screens" or "edge cases" that it needs to handle.