… and I can’t even continue the chat from my phone.

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      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.

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        5 months ago

        Your phone has bigger problems if it cannot take 170mb apps, this isn’t the 1990s

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          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.

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            And your way to look at things that “all apps must be 20 mb or less otherwise they are unoptimised” is better because?

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              Because optimized software is better for industry, people, and environment. Also seeing that some menu or window is not an html page but a native element makes my headache go away because I value my CPU cycles (seeing a cursor doesn’t lag when some complex page is displayed should not be considered a weird fetish) and like it when things don’t do stupid unnecessary stuff both visually and under the hood.

              And it could be even less than that depending on specifics.