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It amuses me that there is so much criticism of the modern web - but a modern app is massively larger. The dropbox app is 237.7 MB - that's so much more insane
by bern4444 3y ago
It amuses me that there is so much criticism of the modern web - but a modern app is massively larger.
The dropbox app is 237.7 MB - that's so much more insane to me.
Of course that app size does include all the assets - images, icons, fonts, etc which the JS bundle for the site doesn't include. But its still insanely large to me.
I don't mean this as a criticism of the app size - just that web/android/ios all are platforms which require a large amount of code and assets to be uniform and available everywhere - web, desktop, phone, tablet, etc.
- psychoslave 3y ago>The dropbox app is 237.7 MB - that's so much more insane to me. I vividly remember "printer drivers" whose installer would take a whole CD.
- sitzkrieg 3y agocompletely agree, i dont have many apps on phone but the average size is over 200mb and they want to update constantly w hehe funny patch notes which is rude considering the bandwidth you expect users to burn updating. i find it completely amazing no one bats an eye on these ( not to mention the mobile data usage )
- JohnFen 3y ago> It amuses me that there is so much criticism of the modern web - but a modern app is massively larger. Both of these problems are ridiculous. But the web one is arguably more severe, since you only download an app once.
- uranusjr 3y agoWith modern caching don’t you also only download the web app once as well? I feel the reason web is worse is more because the download happens right before you want to use it, not ahead of time like app bundles.