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Re:I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app by athorax on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @12:03PM (#30443295)
This kind of bloat doesn't just affect storage usage, for people with capped data plans these kind of apps are a nightmare
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Re:I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app by ratww on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:25PM (#30447427)
It's especially worse for people who are traveling.
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Re:I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app by notahacker on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:52PM (#30447722)
Yep. Airlines are one of the few brand apps where there probably is a significant business case for spending developer time optimising an app for download size, since customers who make the decision to try to download United's app on slow or metered connections at the airport or overseas are probably customers ready to be upsold stuff via the app.
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