Launch HN: Emerge (YC W21) – Monitor and reduce iOS app size

Re:Launch HN: Emerge (YC W21) – Monitor and reduce iOS app size by colejohnson66 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:21PM (#26017084)

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.

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Re:Launch HN: Emerge (YC W21) – Monitor and reduce iOS app size by eigenvector on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:05AM (#26023907)

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.

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Re:Launch HN: Emerge (YC W21) – Monitor and reduce iOS app size by sond813 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:44PM (#26017420)

It's 200mb now before a prompt shows warning users of the size they are about to download.

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Re:Launch HN: Emerge (YC W21) – Monitor and reduce iOS app size by nicoburns on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @02:09PM (#26017732)

Indeed! Our app (a shift management app) at work is ~20mb, and I felt like that was quite a big commitment to expect people to have on their phones!

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