Re:Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days
by vidanay on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:20PM
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I'd be interested to know how these $60 phones perform compared to a 9 year old Motorola Droid. Obviously, the level of content 9 years ago was at least an order of magnitude less than today, but how much of these devices slowness is content vs delivery technology? Is it because web apps are dynamic instead of static? Is it a matter of framework bloat? What is really the root cause of the terrible performance?
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Re:Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days
by hayksaakian on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:46PM
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Operating system bloat and app bloat.
A motorola droid was super fast, I had it for years.
If you made a brand new motorola droid today with the same exact hardware and software it would be too.
Here's a chart showing apk bloat for popular apps over time: https://sensortower.com/blog/ios-app-size-growth
It's for iOS but the same logic follows for android
Re:Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days
by st26 on Saturday July 14, 2018 @11:44AM
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Is ProGuard or similar widely used these days? Is it good enough?
There was a parallel trend of some really awesome apps clocking less than 4MB, which I attribute to good tooling. I wonder if Gmail, Facebook, et al have stripping & such turned off, or if they just have huge asset stores?