> At this scale, even 1 MB can have a significant environmental impact. This links to an article - which the author obviously didn't read - that says this: >

> At this scale, even 1 MB can have a significant environmental impact. This links to an article - which the author obviously didn't read - that says this: > This is not to say that making smaller apps will be a huge help to climate change, quite the opposite. Despite all that we‘ve shown, most of the energy consumed by a mobile device is gone before the user even gets a hold of it, in the manufacturing process. I'm not against helping to prevent climate change, but I am tired of needless hand-wringing over something so trivial, as well as demonizing the tech industry for something that is mostly caused by things like cars, jets, cargo ships and tankers. Reducing an app's size by 1MB is the equivalent to a single long haul flight. Not worth the effort to even think about it, let alone spend the man-hours to prevent it. In fact one could make the argument that all the electricity and resources consumed by developers would offset any potential environmental impact.