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Blogger Trevor Elkins has noted that iOS apps are getting bigger and bigger: Facebook, for instance, weighed 100MB two years ago, yet the app now measures a “whopping” 354MB. I just compared these with the Android versions on my Note 3, which appear to be significantly lighter…
...the six apps in this picture average roughly 230MB in size, 1387MB in total. That would take an 8Mbit internet connection 24 minutes to download, and I’d still be left with 27 additional apps to update! More and more companies are adopting shorter release cycles (two weeks or so) and it’s becoming unsustainable as a consumer to update frequently. Something this systematic leads me to believe Apple has to intervene. Only two years ago were people complaining about Facebook being 100MB. Now it’s a whopping 354MB!
...the six apps in this picture average roughly 230MB in size, 1387MB in total. That would take an 8Mbit internet connection 24 minutes to download, and I’d still be left with 27 additional apps to update! More and more companies are adopting shorter release cycles (two weeks or so) and it’s becoming unsustainable as a consumer to update frequently. Something this systematic leads me to believe Apple has to intervene. Only two years ago were people complaining about Facebook being 100MB. Now it’s a whopping 354MB!