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Re:Show HN: How bloated is your favorite app? by tonyx on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @06:50PM (#12640256)
@CharlesW we mostly focused on the facts and running as controlled of an experiment as possible without bias or drawing conclusion on exactly why heavier apps get downloaded less. Though my personal guess from working years in the mobile app space is that users are surprisingly conscious of data & disk usage. Not everyone has unlimited data or 128GB storage iPhones.
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Re:Show HN: How bloated is your favorite app? by minimaxir on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @06:59PM (#12640326)
If you are not modeling causality, then why do you have an "Impact on Installs" metric next to each asset size?
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Re:Show HN: How bloated is your favorite app? by tonyx on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @07:10PM (#12640390)
Impact can exist regardless of the underlying cause for impact. It may be because someone's device is full, or does not want to download over cellular, or any other myriad of factors. But you'll still lose an install statistically speaking.
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Re:Show HN: How bloated is your favorite app? by ZoFreX on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @07:11PM (#12640400)
Can you disclose what the limits of that experiment are, and highlight on the website when they are exceeded?

For example, I assume if you tested apps sized 0mb-200mb, the data does not extrapolate as far as Hearthstone, which clocks in at a sizeable 1.2gb!

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Re:Show HN: How bloated is your favorite app? by tonyx on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @07:59PM (#12640644)
The largest size we tested was 150mb, that's why the x-axis of the graph ends at that point :)
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