From loyalty cards, to restaurant meal deals or simply parking your car – it is harder and harder to get by without signing up to a multitude of apps
  • @SocialMediaRefugeeEnglish
    27•11 hours ago

    Even if I was willing to download all of those apps I don’t have room for them. They chew up 50-300mb each (why!?) and if I installed all of them I’d run out of memory. Since most phones now don’t support memory expansion I have to be picky about which ones I use.

    I have THREE separate parking apps because I travel.

    • KairosEnglish
      11•3 hours ago

      The reason they’re so huge is

      1. They’re generally not well optimized by the creators.
      2. They all contain their own dependencies
      3. There’s a LOT of stuff in them (both code and dependencies). Which is kind of an optimization problem, but potato potato.
      • @[email protected]English
        13•2 hours ago

        Mobile apps are also loaded with third party ad and spyware frameworks which bloats up the size.

        • KairosEnglish
          8•2 hours ago

          Same thing with rendering/layout/functionality frameworks. And each app has their own.

          My favorite Android app, Trail Sense, which has the ability to know when sunrise and sunset are without Internet, is like 10MB