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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by nindalf on Friday September 04, 2020 @04:31AM (#24372956)
> dozens of GBs

Hyperbole detracts from the point you're trying to make. Everyone reading your comment knows how much space apps take on their phones.

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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by mschuster91 on Friday September 04, 2020 @04:39AM (#24372999)
> Everyone reading your comment knows how much space apps take on their phones.

The problem here is caching, as in-app caches have different caches than the global system.

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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by notRobot on Friday September 04, 2020 @06:37AM (#24373697)
Yeah I meant MB, that was a typo. My bad. Point still stands. The Reddit app on Android is 36 MB. Why does a simple message board app need to be so big?
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