Ask HN: How is Facebook's iOS app 491MB?

Re:Ask HN: How is Facebook's iOS app 491MB? by jameslk on Saturday September 15, 2018 @05:20PM (#17996089)

Unless it's a business concern (i.e. affecting one of the metrics the business is measuring and reporting), it's not on management's mind and therefore won't be prioritized as something worth improving or prevent from getting worse.

Is it affecting app installs? Is it leading to a reduction of usage? No -> Don't fix.

As an outsider, that would be my guess of how the app can grow to be so large, without knowing the reason why.

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Re:Ask HN: How is Facebook's iOS app 491MB? by underwater on Saturday September 15, 2018 @05:34PM (#17996145)

The app size hovered below 100MB for a log time, because that was Apple’s threshold for non-WiFi installs. Once they blew that budget it seems to have got out of hand.

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Re:Ask HN: How is Facebook's iOS app 491MB? by signal11 on Saturday September 15, 2018 @09:05PM (#17996840)

I just checked the App Store, it appears to have breached the 500MB barrier now: https://imgur.com/a/9LOrq1K

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Re:Ask HN: How is Facebook's iOS app 491MB? by bitsquirrel on Sunday September 16, 2018 @03:17AM (#17997729)

For myself and friends and family, I maintain a Linux distro. It contains Chrome, LibreOffice, GIMP, Inkscape, Skype, not to mention a full OS and video drivers etc. And it's smaller than the iOS Facebook app.

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