Until app stores start penalizing apps for their size, there is little incentive for developers to improve. And I guess the phone makers don't mind forcing peop

Until app stores start penalizing apps for their size, there is little incentive for developers to improve. And I guess the phone makers don't mind forcing people to buy new phones - although a shortage of space would also get people to stop buying more apps, so maybe that doesn't play into it as much as a desire to keep developers happy. Notably, the Google Play Store doesn't even show the app size. I bet just showing it below the download button would already create significant pressure to reduce size. Both major stores used to have some form of limit - either a hard one, or a soft one where users would get warnings or the apps would only be downloaded over WiFi - which kept developer madness in check, but that seems to be gone now. Some banking apps are the worst offenders, because banks know that few people will change their primary bank just because their app was too big so they don't care at all. Revolut is 200 MB (for comparison: Chrome - a complete browser! - is 50 MB), and that isn't the biggest one on my phone.