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YES! Size matters. I just moved from android to apple and the IOS apps are 2x - 5X larger It's really a disgusting tax and I install a lot less apps as a resu
by mring33621 4y ago
YES! Size matters.
I just moved from android to apple and the IOS apps are 2x - 5X larger
It's really a disgusting tax and I install a lot less apps as a result.
They could easily fix this by adding intelligence in the App store, to serve up the binary for my device's architecture, but no, I have to get the universal bloated binary pig.
Example: You're about to pay your bill at a restaurant. The server tells you that they have an app that will get you a discount/loyalty points. Your cell has a 4G connection. On android, the download size is 20-50MB. No problem. On IOS, the download size is 40-240MB. Problem!
- ladberg 4y agoWhile there is a lot of unfortunate size bloat in iOS apps (like the one in the article), including unnecessary architectures is not one of them. See the app thinning section here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/doing-advanced-optimization-to-further-reduce-your-app-s-size https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/doing-advanc... (which is automatically done on all apps distributed through the App Store)
- pyr0hu 4y agoI don't know, downloading 40-240MB on 4G connection is not taking too much time. 4G is pretty fast
- FractalParadigm 4y agoThe problem isn't the speed, it's the ridiculous bandwidth caps imposed by ISPs. Here in Canada a fairly simple 10GB data plan runs about $75/month, if a restaurant is offering me a discount and requires their 250MB app to get it, that discount has effectively cost me $2.
- happyopossum 4y agoThat was the case several years ago, but Telus, Rogers, etc all have unlimited plans for that price now...
- FractalParadigm 4y agoI have a really hard time calling those plans "unlimited" when it becomes unusably slow after your full-speed allotment. I hope the waiter told you about their app discount before you ordered, because best-case scenario that 250MB app is going to take a little over an hour to download at the 512kbps they allow.
- pyr0hu 4y agoYeah, I haven't considered data caps, as here in Hungary, unlimited data is around 27eur/mo, but even capped is not that expensive (just an example: 10GB is 10eur, 50gb is 20 eur)
- chlorion 4y agoI have a 500mb per month data cap on my current phone plan. This would put a huge dent in that!
- pyr0hu 4y agoAh, right, sorry, I haven't considered data caps.
- lawgimenez 4y agoYes it matters. My current scenario right now is our internet is down. The fastest way to reach ISP support is through Twitter DM. Twitter is not an option since their app is way over 300MB. So I download Tweetbot for only ~20MB. I am also an Android dev and maintaining APK size has always been part of the dev process from the start. Apple is just so bad in policing their IPA size. And it is getting worse.