Re:Launch HN: Emerge (YC W21) – Monitor and reduce iOS app size
by nicoburns on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @12:57PM
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People with small capacity phones (a lot of people) won't install your app, and may actually uninstall it if it's too big. That may not be priority #1, but it certainly deserves some consideration.
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Re:Launch HN: Emerge (YC W21) – Monitor and reduce iOS app size
by sond813 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:37PM
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Exactly! Emerge aims to make it as easy as possible to fix app size issues, so you can prioritize it similar to other bug fixes. With our pull request comments alerting you to size increases right when they happen you can easily see why size increased and remedy it all before the change makes it to users.
Re:Launch HN: Emerge (YC W21) – Monitor and reduce iOS app size
by colejohnson66 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:21PM
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I mean, Facebook is a quarter of a gigabyte for God knows what reason. Many apps are similar. There’s a reason the base capacity is 64 GB: apps keep getting bigger.
However, the cellular size limit is now 250 MB IIRC, so Facebook seems to stay just under that.
Re:Launch HN: Emerge (YC W21) – Monitor and reduce iOS app size
by eigenvector on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:05AM
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The base capacity is 64 GB now, but lots of phones of 32 GB and even 16 are still usable (the original iPhone SE, for instance, was sold in a 16 GB version and runs the latest iOS).
These older phones are way more common outside of the US and even just outside of the SFBA where not everyone buys a new $1000+ phone every 2 years.