They’re talking about the desktop application.
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poissonDistribution@lemmy.world 4 months ago
On my phone is only 171mb.
Bolt@lemmy.world 4 months ago
rdri@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“Only”
baatliwala@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Your phone has bigger problems if it cannot take 170mb apps, this isn’t the 1990s
rdri@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s a very bad way to look at things. Just because I have gigabytes of memory doesn’t mean I want to use unoptimized software.
baatliwala@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And your way to look at things that “all apps must be 20 mb or less otherwise they are unoptimised” is better because?
thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 4 months ago
If developers optimized their apps, we could have phones that are 10x faster than 10 yeara ago. Instead they are the same speed and the same amount of apps fit in the bigger storage, because developers are lazy and use heavy, unoptimized technologies that use 10x the resources
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That sounds like a problem with YOUR phone. Every phone I’ve bought has been faster than the last. Maybe you have too much bloatware?
I use open source Android only, will not use a phone with stock android. Bloatware is a non-issue on AOSP unless you do that to your own phone.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And that’s also a lot for an app that doesn’t have that many binary assets like images or videos. I do wonder what makes up most of these sizes. I see other apps that are arguably more complicated - like AntennaPod - using under 40MB; So I guess it has to do with actual native apps vs cross platform ones.