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> And as per Apple's restrictions, if your bundle size is over 100MB, users cannot download the app over the air I wish stores implemented more such hard limit
by tgsovlerkhgsel 5y ago
> And as per Apple's restrictions, if your bundle size is over 100MB, users cannot download the app over the air
I wish stores implemented more such hard limits, or other strong incentives to reduce space usage.
I bet Uber could make its app significantly smaller than 234 MB (Google Maps: 137 MB, Chrome: 36 MB), but that would require effort, and it's cheaper to consume an extra 100 MB on 100 million other people's phones than to put in that effort.
- bhupy 5y agoJust curious…why? For the vast majority of Uber’s users, space is basically free.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 5y agoBecause I can store either Uber's (and 10 other companies') bloat, or an extra 10 album's worth of music. I'd rather have the music.
- bhupy 5y agoWell, in practice, it's not either-or, the vast majority of users get to have both 10+ companies "bloat", as well as 10 album's worth of music. The base model of an Apple iPhone comes with 64GB, which is probably more than enough for the vast majority of Apple users — all the bloaty apps one might use on a day to day basis, all their pictures, and all their music. For an extra $50 you get 128GB. This is more than enough for the vast vast majority of Apple users (yes I'm aware that there probably exists dozens of idiosyncratic power users who might need even more). In fact, if you're the kind of user that's going to blow past that, it's probably because you're storing more-than-average 4K or 8K video and RAW images, where shaving down app size is probably not going to help anyway.
- dbbk 5y agoIf you'd read the article you would learn the many reasons why the app blew past the bundle size limit. None of which particularly being their fault.